Williams and Spyker protest over "customer cars"..

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www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=38425

That'll be Frank using Toyota engines, and Spyker using Ferrari motors then - half points?

People in glass houses...








I did a search - if this is a repost keep it to yourself, I know where you live...

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I have to say I don't really see the complaint either. From a business perspective and the addage of "speculate to accumulate" - if you spend more cash researching and developing your own car, run by the most able personnel you can hire, you should be aiming to be further up the grid than a team that buys second hand cars / chassis' and, therefore be targetting the bigger value sponsors to pay for that investment. If Red Bull want to effectively run four cars, why shouldn't they, by funding two teams?

Looking at the arguments put forward by Spyker and Williams - I don't see that it's "totally different" to look at the engine vs chassis, because they are arguing that because e.g. Super Aguri buy-in everything, they aren't a constructor and shouldn't get points for being such. Logically therefore, if you buy in a significant part of a whole racing car i.e. the engine, why should you get full points?

It may say so in the rules, a fair point, but customer engines were presumably part of a cost cutting measure for teams when they were first allowed - why is it now totally different to take this one stage further and buy in the whole car?