The imperative is to survive 2020.Our financial results reflect our finishing position in last year’s constructors’ championship and consequent reduction in prize money. ), and I absolutely love reading all the behind the scenes machinations and the money stories , sponsor stories , power plays , politics and all of the associated skullduggeries.Cheers.What I find most interesting about these figures is the increase in number of employees at almost every team. But what did you have to spend to win a race – or a championship – in 2019? But it is well-placed for F1’s new era, when budget caps restrict team’s ‘performance’ spending to $175m. It had been that close just a few years ago.We hit our numbers this year on our sponsor projections. I believe in 2014 they came out in top (dollar spent/point) with a driver line up of a way past his prime Massa and a much less expierienced Bottas!Makes you wonder why they havnt replaced their acting team principal yet.Yes, Williams are going to have to produce some good results this season.
This gives a much more even scale, and accounts for their position finishes outside the top 10.Over the years I’ve tried permutations and keep coming back to dollars/point – even when Red Bull or Mercedes won the championship teams such as Force India, Williams and Haas came out tops (or close to) when they punched above their weight.I guess I would try to do something like “Relative Budget” (Team Budget / Minor Budget) v/s points as the quantity USD/point is clearly correlated with how much money a team spends, so actually it do not indicates some kind of efficiency as, I guess, you are trying to show.I like it also, and it will be interesting how it goes once the budget cap is in place!“True, Honda improved enormously, but the RB15 was believed by many to be the sweetest chassis on the grid – winning three races on merit.”I’m curious who those many are, because last I checked, the general consensus in the paddock was that the RB15, especially in the first half of the season, was everything but sweet and that it took them till Austria to make it easier to drive and even throughout the rest of the season the Mercedes was kinder on its tires.Mercedes had a better chassis for sure especially in the first half. Its other three sources of income are Red Bull and associated brands (who will rename the team Alpha Tauri next year), Honda (power units and cash), Moose (a Thai cider linked to The team’s headcount increased marginally over 2018 in both Faenza and at its Bedford aerodynamics base despite (or due to?) ihme 24 December, 2019 18:55 [www.williamsf1.com] This report can be then fetched by everyone interested, submitting a request to the proper office, called something like Trades Chamber. But what did you have to spend to win a race – or a championship – in 2019? Bottas was 0.444 faster on Verstappen in S3 Spain qualy where was Mercedes was by far in their own league. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.Ricciardo using off-season to build relationship with Renault This is reflected in the size of their budgets.”These sentiments still prevail, save the number of wins by said teams increased to 121 – further underscoring this point – while budgets at the sharp end got even bigger. That said, so does Williams.By whatever measure, Mercedes did the business, so hats off to the team.The only suggestion I have is that I’d prefer to see the loss/profit before ‘shareholder contribution’ and the like.I don’t think $/point is the best way to evaluate this, though. They can’t get or keep a title sponsor for a whole season. Looks like they’ll do even better for the full season per Zak.Good point. Haas slipped four places…Until 2021 (at least) the sport will – in all likelihood – continue to be dominated by the ‘Big Three’, who collectively share a quarter of the sport’s prize fund in return for simply turning up on Sundays. Yet such predictability does the F1 brand no favours: not a single one-two victory features strongly in the race ratings by RaceFans readers, while events such as Germany and Brazil, in which the Silver Arrows bombed spectacularly, received massive thumbs-up. In 2019 these bonuses total a projected $300m, taking the ‘pot’ up to a billion bucks.Still, unlike previous years, all 10 teams made it through the year without visits from bailiffs, and this situation is expected to continue through 2020, with the subsequent new era promising all change and heralding improved stability for all.After three seasons under Liberty and one to go before current covenants expire and F1 casts off the shackles imposed by previous rights holder CVC Capital Partners and former F1 tsar Bernie Ecclestone, F1 is finally heading in the right direction. Ferrari tops up F1’s joint-largest budget.But there is push-back, particularly in the USA, against ‘alternate’ tobacco products. That is where the entire magic diff discussion came about. True, Honda improved enormously, but the RB15 was believed by many to be the sweetest chassis on the grid – winning three races on merit.Aston Martin, TAG Heuer and Exxon Mobil provided supplementary funding, with big names such as IBM and AT&T also lending support. pre-budget cap) and will continue to reap the rewards of those investments post 2021, thus embedding the current inequality across the grid. That is an entirely passive system, and it’s actually a fairly old idea – Minardi had a similar system in 1993 on the M193, and Tyrrell developed a more advanced system, which they called “Hydrolink”, in 1995, although it proved to be difficult to tune and they eventually removed it from the 023.