Quote Originally Posted by Les
just to say I don't agree with the 'money will get you any where' but it certainly has put people with lesser talent in some great cars which is a pity at time.
Agreed, Les - having a bank balance with lots of digits before the decimal point certainly helps you "jump the queue" - but that's not to say that some of the drivers who have "bought" their drives (or funded their own teams) are not decent drivers.

Going back to the original question, one driver that I spoke to a short while ago said that his budget for the whole season was about a quarter of what one of the manufacturers was allocating to each race weekend!