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Originally Posted by 533ogetnom
umm you obviously dont know how the sport works, you get money for winning, a LOT of money, in the tens to hundreds of millions for ferrari and mclaren, the fee is going to be 100million MINUS what they would earn for their performance, which will be a HUGE chunk of change, the point was yea its 100million, but thats a fart in the wind in this sport that has BILLIONS running though it from various angles
you think they are racing only for sponsor money? ive never heard of a racing league, let a lone the pinnacle of racing having people race and giving them just trophies  |
Yes, they get a lot of $$$ through winning each race and various channels (including winning the constructors championship), but McLaren did not account or budget for losing $100M.
We are talking billions in this sport, but each team has to squeeze every penny into R&D to make a winning car. With an uncount number of staff on the payroll (race drivers, engineers, designers, maintenance, pit crews, lawyers, accountants, ...), this is a real corporation trying to survive in a cut-throat business environment.
McLaren may not feel the pain this year, as they are well ahead of other teams in terms of R&D, but they will definitely feel the squeeze of losing that $100M in R&D in the coming few years.
p.s. ironically, this is their primary reason for espionage as they had been losing out to Renault and Ferrari in the past few years.