Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
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.
I dont agree with you. Comparison with S2000 is not the best, because you are talking about same cars in category. R4 was from beginning thought as lower class than R5, it should be a step between R5 and fastest 2WD cars - with the speed, price and costs. And with all protos or nationally homologated cars, I think there is still a lot of place for them, also in Europe. For me the biggest problem for that project was that "Oreca way" is simply too expensive...