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F1 News & Discussions => Pit Pass => Topic started by: cosworth151 on April 29, 2013, 02:22:54 PM
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This is from AutoWeek. Last year's championship winner, Red Bull Racing, had a $270.2 million season-long budget for a $13.5 million-per-race average. At the bottom of the grid, even the 11th-place Marussia team spent $5.4 million at every Grand Prix. I guess that proves the old racing truism: "Money is speed. How fast do you want to spend?" This article eplains where some of that money goes.
I did find a few flaws in the article. For example, there is no mention of travel expenses. Still, not a bad piece.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130426/f1/130429847#ixzz2RrFHyLWi
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This is from AutoWeek. Last year's championship winner, Red Bull Racing, had a $270.2 million season-long budget for a $13.5 million-per-race average. At the bottom of the grid, even the 11th-place Marussia team spent $5.4 million at every Grand Prix. I guess that proves the old racing truism: "Money is speed. How fast do you want to spend?" This article eplains where some of that money goes.
I did find a few flaws in the article. For example, there is no mention of travel expenses. Still, not a bad piece.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130426/f1/130429847#ixzz2RrFHyLWi
I was under the impression that FOM took care of most shipping. I remember Ferrari and McLaren bringing spare cars at their own expense for late races when the championship was clsoe.
What I see missing is the budget for wining and dining sponsors. If Marussia is spending $5 million per weekend, how much of that is on champaign and caviar?
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Does it give much anyway? I mean we pretty much know what cost what, and how teams burns money faster than anything to gain few hundredth of a second. Not a bad one, but I would have enjoyed a bit more details.
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I was under the impression that FOM took care of most shipping.
I think the travel costs referred to are for the team airfare and hotels, along with the shipping costs for the non-European races. Bernie Air does ship the cars and equipment for the fly-aways, but I don't think he subsidizes the shipping costs for the teams to the European leg.