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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

Umm obviously you have no idea how F1 works. Nearly all the money a team gets from the FIA comes via Constructors Championship Points. Each point has a dollar value which is why teams fight for every position. That money is paid out to the teams at the end of the season. So McLaren will be receiving exactly $0.00 from the FIA at the end of the season for constructor points. Plus their asses will be kicked all the way down to the end of pit lane. That’s the ghetto for those of you not familiar with F1. Driver Championship Points are not handled the same way, and do not bring in the same amount of money. In fact it is much less. Maybe a 1-2 million to the winning team per race, and with only 17 races on the calendar this does not add up to much. Even if your team scores a bunch of 1-2 finishes. In fact prize money is a very small part of an F1 teams budget. For smaller teams like Spyker and Red Bull it may make up 5%. For big teams like Ferrari and Mclaren it may go as high as 15%. So where does the rest of the money come from? Well despite what you posted most of the money comes from…you guessed it…sponsors. The cheapest sponsorship deal will cost a company 10-25 million, and that is for a back of the grid team. These teams live and die based on sponsorship not prize money. So if you think Mclaren will simply write off the 100 million dollar loss they just took think again. Why do you think the entire F1 community is loosing their minds over this? So please think think think before you post.