New R4 Car - Think Tank

[Mirek]

It doesn't work like that. To have money from sponsors you need results (unelss it's your own money, aka Al Quassimi & co. style and in that case you usually don't have a need for cost saving). That means that the performance is first and formost important thing. It's much easier to get certain amount of money for a driver who can convince his sponsors that he is ready to fight for the overall victory than 3/4 of the same sum for someone who presents them an idea to try to do the championship with a cheaper but slower car.

As it was said the R4 makes sense for overseas markets but not much for Europe.

For Your infomation around 2012-2014 in your math to drive older Punto S2000 or Proton S2000 was way more cost-effective yet nearly nobody did it. Simply because the cars were slower than than the Fabia.