Originally Posted by The_abbott:
“in a few years time we will have second rate drivers getting all the seats because they have sponsership. None of those that have been sponsored have set the world alight”
Nah.
The top teams will always be willing to pay for the top talent.
The big problem is, IMO, the current fashion for small teams (and the various driver managers) to treat F1 as a "testing ground" for new talent.
They seem to be happy to take on any yahoo with a big enough bundle of cash, take some of it off them and give them a seat in an F1 car for a year.
Not really sure how it'll be possible to stop this but it certainly seems as though, in future, some of the smaller teams will only exist to take cash and give new drivers a chance to dip their toe in F1 before moving on to a more competitive team or give up.