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Originally Posted by GuidoK
True. But maybe RBR should've taken the step to move the entire factory away from Milton Keynes to a location that is more willing to coöperate.
If you're serious about that, a city might be more coöperative to comply too.
I mean, an F1 factory generates a lot of money for the local economy.
I mean, the budget cap is tight, but every big F1 team has a shitload of money they can spend every year on goodies, promotional activities, maintenance of buildings etc etc. They have money to burn as long as it's not directly involved with car development and wages for people working on car development.
I think I saw reports back in late 2018 or early 2019 or so, before covid that they were already planning a new wind tunnel because their old one was not really up to standards anymore. And prognoses now is that it'll be finished well into 2026, so chances are that the base car for 2026 and 2027 will be crap too.
So it could cost them 3 titles....
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RBR happy years being 21-24 winning titles may have relaxed that urgency in building a new wind tunnel as the present one sufficed enough and it's understandable now that Stroll had the AMR one built together with the new building housing the F1 team in his haste to make the AM F1 car more competitive.