The holy grail alternatives to a cost cap
A cost cap in the region of $150million could be part of Liberty's post-2020 vision for Formula 1, but such a move might prove difficult to police - so what are the alternatives?
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When it comes to things like cost caps, for me, they never work. This is because it is impossible to police what each team is spending. Instead, it is vital to come up with clever, creative solutions that allow technical development alongside marginal pace gains.
And this only applies for all professional motorsport which needs OEMs to develop commercial technologies - so not Formula 2, Formula 3 or categories such as TCR, but Formula 1, LMP1, Formula E and WRC/WRX.
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