Quote Originally Posted by journeyman racer View Post
I can never take the suggestion of Flavio Briatore seriously. The guy is a POS
I didn't want to actually say that, but since you did, I agree.

That would be almost impossible. At every level of motorsport. If there's a completion worth winning, people/organisations will throw money at it.
Yes, but you can make it less expensive overall. Indycars are not nearly as expensive, and that's down to a sensible (sort of) rules package. The new cars F1 introduced this year are incredibly complex, and that usually means expensive too. What did Kaltenborn say it costs to field a car? Wasn't it something like $95 million? I think the only way you could burn that much money in Indycar would be to actually burn the money.

Now there is talk of bringing back the old V8 not only because the fans supposedly liked them better, but also because they were a lot less expensive.

If I had the answers I would be running things, but I don't. I just know that when teams can't afford to race, and close their doors instead, it's usually because the costs have gotten out of control.