Mercedes and Ferrari supply engines for most of the teams which leads to close partner relationships between certain teams, but nobody else has an explicit fully-controlled junior team like RB. And I agree they should have to give it up if they want to limit entries.
Its like Ferrari has a second team… Merc does not have a second team. They supply engine and bits to other teams, like Ferrari does to hass, and Alpine used to do. RB right out owns two teams.
The main concern seems to be prize pool dilution? Why is hard to make it a sliding scale, factoring in # of teams racing? Or is it they just don’t want the competition? It leaves a sour taste in my mouth their approach both limiting competition meanwhile denying entries.
It isn’t cause they’re American, if it was any other team the reaction would be exactly the same. They don’t want to split the money more. I know we all want to make it into an anti-American sentiment, but I genuinely believe they don’t care what nationality the team is.
Well, I don’t think you’d be crazy for saying that but I don’t believe it to be true.
I’ve never sensed any animosity to a non European team, rather I think it’s just about the money. More teams means less dosh per team which in turn, to some extent, lowers the market value of the existing teams.
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