Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
What is your guess, how much the team budget would change for these "R5+" cars? Let's say the yearly budget is now 100 million euros, how much of that would be reduced with cheaper cars?

Now, think again: could it be possible that there's currently only two manufacturers in the world who are interested in putting money in supporting a whole WRC team, no matter what the car is?
I do not know the numbers and what percentage of the total cost is the car development. If it is low percentage, then there is no point for a cheaper car. If it is high percentage, then there is. If you can show the actual numbers it would be very good.
I just see that there are seven manufacturers with R5 cars and this might be a good reason for attracting them.