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F1: Ben Sulayem questions need for cost cap
FIA president, Mohammed ben Sulayem says he doesn't see the need to continue with the cost cap. At a time the sport is celebrating its 75th year, it is easy to forget how close we came to losing it. The days of buying a Ford DFV, a Hewland gearbox and sticking them in an old chassis from McLaren, Brabham, March or Lotus and entering your home Grand Prix are long gone. The loss of vital sponsorship money from the lies of tobacco companies aside, as the sport continued to develop constructors and manufacturers would throw money at their F1 programmes in search of success, causing rivals to either join them in their spending insanity or go under. Max Mosley was aware of the threat this was to...
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