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The mega money days are over for F1 and the arms race has drawn to a close. As the world economy continues to cool and car sales dip faster than anyone ever envisaged, so the sport finds itself having to contract faster than its structure really allows. The test ban, further engine mileage limits and wind tunnel restrictions should go some way to stabilising things in the short term. The following three years will be all about gradually downsizing and it will have an effect on the structure of teams, structures that grew with boom years money that's been withdrawn savagely suddenly. This is F1's cold turkey phase. The Honda pull-out has shocked the F1 community, but probably only because most of it was living in a bubble. That bubble has been well and truly pricked now and with dark talk of 'more to follow' in the weeks ahead it's now very clear that the window of opportunity for the teams to band together to form their own series, where all generated revenue was put back into the sport, has firmly closed. The thought of going to a nervous, jittery board and suggesting they team up with the others to break away from the established championship and set up their own is now very much pie in the sky. It would be risky, costly and could attract all the wrong sorts of headlines in the current climate. That idea, borne of the unity of FOM and it being headed by Ferrari's Luca di Montezemolo, is no longer of the time. © 2020 Autosport
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