Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
Guys, have a look on that all stuff from higher perspective no matter how hard it is. Now for a while forget that motorsport is sport and look at it as on marketing tool which it actually is for all the manufacturers involved. They don't spend millions for helping some guy to win the title. They do it because they want to increase their image, to sell more of their products and to make more money.

As such motorsport on this level is all driven by cold money-driven management. And that's another issue because if one very rich team buys the best people from other teams, goes through far biggest amount of testing it simply must defeat others (unless the team management is utterly incompetent). As a result the other managements must sooner or later come to a conclusion that spending those millions in this sport brings nothing. They pack and move somewhere else. Then we have what we had less than ten years a go with Loeb/Citroën combination when all other manufacturers left (M-Sport which is not a manufacturer is different case). The very same thing keeps repeating all the time. Recently we can name ERC/IRC which was in a similar way so much dominated by Škoda that every other team left. What happened next? Škoda left too because there was no interest in that championship anymore. The championship is now half dead. Do You think it won't happen in WRC if VW keeps dominating for several more years? It will happen and then VW moves into some other sport just like they did when they destroyed the competition in Dakar.

It's the job of FIA and the promoter to keep the manufacturers interested but how can You keep them in when one team keeps winning all the time? It's sad for sporting purist but the only way is to let them have some success from time to time. They must have something to sell and loosing every two weeks again and again with the very same competitor is very bad marketing if You ask me. I'm surprised Capito says what he says as he must be aware of all that. The only explanation is that VW acts just like in Dakar. They don't seem to care what's left when one day they stay as a lone winner of a deserted championship.
I understand marketing is important and everybody wants to win, but this sounds more like lottery to me - everyone with few coins in his pocket can make millions by scratching some numbers.