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The Cost Cap and the Future of Formula One
The big teams are being forced to come down to a cap and they're struggling to get people to fit in this little bit of spare budget. Cost cap will stop the sport attracting the people that's attracted in the past. They will go off to other industries, not just road cars. The intentions of the cost cap were pure and to stop people spending obscene amounts of money. But what we should do is just turn around and say realistically, your cost cap said at $140 million without the top three earners and without the drivers. So you've got $250 million a year full stop or $300 million if the commercial side of things needs to get taken into consideration. Stop having commercial outside