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50M budget cap is totally unrealistic. The customer engines alone cost in the neighborhood of at least 20M and the top teams can easily spend in the neighborhood of 30M on driver and top staff salaries. Last time I heard about caps, the proposal was 40M _not_ including the engine costs and driver salary, and the teams still rejected this. Realistically, with the influence welded by the top teams, it will never be approved. But still, a team like Sauber or Lotus would still need to raise at least 70-80M for a campaign even under cost caps. At the same time this won't have any effect on the team like Ferrari or Red Bull. I can imagine the Red Bull income statement:
Engines from company X: $10K
Carbon fiber parts from company Y: $5 a piece
Investment in new wind tunnel and simulator facility: $100M (but only 4% of its total cost will count as "expense" due to depreciation for budget accounting purposes).
A supercumputer grid from company Y: free (donation from a sponsor)
I am sure accountants will find a way to shuffle things to work around the caps.
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