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It's the Hard Knock Life
There seems to be something seriously awry with Formula One's financial model when a team at the top end of the championship spectrum announces record profits while three at the bottom of the log either are, or have been in the recent past, threatened with extinction.
To rub salt into the wounds is the stated ability of another front-runner - one which recently headed the points' logs until convicted of rather unsavoury activities - to pay a fine of 100 million US dollars out of revenues.
To put that into perspective: Vijay Mallya, new owner of Force India, formerly Spyker, formerly Midland F1, nee Jordan - all in something like four years - recently stated his team had a budget of around $110m for the entire 2008 season.
