Formula 1's unfair revenue sharing
The smaller Formula 1 teams have expressed anger at the news that the proposed cost cap will not happen and, given how revenue is shared in the sport, it is no surprise, as DIETER RENCKEN explains
The subject of cost cutting is Formula 1's equivalent of a bad penny: despite every attempt to eradicate the topic, it remains in circulation, ready to spoil every F1 gathering, whether team boss meeting, Strategy Group session, Formula 1 Commission summit or World Motor Sport Council assembly.
Back in the days when team owners were true gentlemen, the question of money was seldom, if ever, discussed - those in trouble would rather stiffly fade away than cheerfully admit to a distinct shortage of the folding stuff - but then came a new breed of owner, some of whom happily washed their torn linen in public and wheeled out begging bowls without shame.
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