I'm just trying to think it's not that black and white, there's factory teams, non-factory professional teams (M-Sport, Stobart, OMV etc) who run for manufacturer points and then there's privateers.
I would normally think of privateers as any non-factory team, regardless of driver. Of course using that logic M Sport is a strange case as was Citroen's season with Kronos.
Think that livery was just for the show. They would have removed the Toyota Gazoo Racing stickers if the intention was to use that livery for the season.
I hear Ferrari has gone down the route of a steel crankcase. Even so, they are apparently revising the design of the engine to adopt the Mercedes approach. I think there is more to it than meet the...
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