AmateurDriver wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 11:30
Budget constraint did not come overnight. Teams had time to plan their transition into the restriction regime. And of course infrastructures and know how inherited from the past and acquired thanks to a bigger expenditure capability are more than valuable. Indeed hierarchy remained more or less the same. Were you expecting a 10 team competition in 2022, weren't you?
Especially with Mercedes, it's noticeable that what the team used to spend a lot on before is helping it now (nope).
I am more than sure that they would be happy to spend x2 of their budget to solve their problems (like they do before), but for the sake of this budget limitation and adopted that everyone would be in the same conditions. The amount of money you can spend is irrelevant if you can't spend more that other teams.
dia6olo wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 11:25
Then there is appeal, the best people in F1 will always be drawn to the likes of RBR Ferrari & Mercedes first, budget cap or not there are teams that will always have a built in "pull" advantage.
And yet Aston Martin got Dan Fellows and his team, Rob Marshall went to McLaren, Sanchez went there and without getting the desired position he is now TD Alpine, James Vowles left Mercedes for Williams, Mekis also left Ferrari for RB etc.