Quote Originally Posted by V12
Exactly. Minardi went from a respectable mid-grid team in the early 90s to perennial backmarkers by the end of the decade - not because they had particularly got worse off - but every team behind them hit the wall!

It's a competition - someone has to be at the back. It doesn't make them a shambolic outfit. I'd have nothing against F1 putting the anchors on a potential Andrea Moda or Life, but looking at some non F1 single seater teams around, ART/ASM, Carlin, Arden, Super Nova, and there's a load I've missed - all quality operations who would no doubt add value to an expanded F1 grid. Natural selection and economics would keep the entry list at a sensible size anyway...no need for artifical restrictions to preserve a team's "franchise" *shudders*
Your post made me wonder something, maybe a little bit different, but got the inspiration by thinking about crappy teams, is really money that significant in an F1 Team, or crappy F1 teams have mediocre engineers?

but it is a vicious cycle because the more money a team has, the more they can pay to a fantastic engineer, (am I right RB-Newey?), but there's the Toyota case too, they are ultra rich and they suck so bad, and Renault had a limited budget and they were smoking Toyotas, Hondas, Ferraris in 2005 and the beginning of 2006, they must have some talented dudes in there.

The point is, cans somebody explain how it's money spent in F1, wing tunnels??, some are owned by the team, some run 24/7/365, why is it so expensive, eletric power bills?, I Don't know, still i think F1 wastes too much money when there are people dying of starvation everyday.

cheers.