Comments on: Toyota has $445.6m F1 budget

By: dookster

dookster — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:14:29 +0000

How much did Sir Virginair paid for this years Fq championship?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:51:39 +0000

Toyota has the bigest budget in the world than others car manufactures! This is known! Also Toyota make an F1 team from zero (0), it’s means buy stuff without f1 experience on 2002 and built f1 factory in Germany with own and try to do “one aim” to win formula 1 one day… Believe that f1 in nowdays is very difficult to do that from zero… Needs time and years. Now Toyota has 8 years in f1 and i beleive it’s the time to do the “one aim”
Don’t forget something, Renault buy Benneton team 2002 and come in f1, that’s means ranault is Benneton with 10 years experience stuff and factory in f1 + 8 years nowdays= about 18 years experience, so wins 2 championships! BMW buy Sauber team too, they cannot make a team of zero their own teams because they have not much money to do that it’s dificult, Toyota can do that and i believe in this team… The begging is on 2009…!

By: Jan Ekkeren

Jan Ekkeren — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:48:39 +0000

Ross Brawn is the most sucessfull F-1 designer ever !
Holy cow, read some history…

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:40:39 +0000

I’d be really interested to see how much of McLaren’s budget comes from Mercedes. We can see the other manufacturer’s spending, but Mercedes manages to stay in the shadows. Anyone know if Formula Money covers this?

By: todd

todd — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:38:30 +0000

ross brawn should really be at toyota not honda. next year will be the real test of honda’s power. better hope they do better next year if they want to stay in F1, otherwise i fear they might think about leaving…

By: Chickv

Chickv — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:04:43 +0000

Psst! Better keep this list from Max eys sight. Else, he will find way to get a chunk of Toyota’s & Maclaren to subsidise Ferrari’s win.

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:11:02 +0000

Like many other things on earth these days , F1 has managed to blow up a very big balloon which I hope they can deflate slowly back to the normal size without it going BANG. and it’s unfortunately the cause of excessive politics and court room battles , as we have witnessed too many of in the last few years.

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:31:46 +0000

They teams only spend the money because they can. They don’t need to make a profit and are constantly developing new technology and generating the money every year. They size of the budgets are not a problem but a sign that things are going well for the teams.

By: D Winn

D Winn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:04:19 +0000

@Sush
You either have a very vivid imagination OR – Can I have some of that stuff you are on ?

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:55:06 +0000

Dan,

The RBR and STR chassis are designed and made by a third company. It’s called something like Red Bull Technology. It will have an entirely separate budget.