Originally Posted by Grouty:
“Sad news about Marussia
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“Sad news about Marussia
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While I feel for the employees of the team, that's just the nature of motorsport. They came in looking to invest the minimum of money, and got back what that was worth; almost nothing. While there needs to be some spending control on F1 teams, and I don't want to see a return to the extremes of 2007 - 2012 where RBR, McLaren and Ferrari were spending 400m+; you need to be willing to invest a significant amount to be competitive.
We've seen bigger names than these two teams come and go in the past - Toyota, BMW, Tyrrell, Lotus, Matra to name just a few. F1 wasn't in a crisis then, and it's not in a crisis now because these two teams were unable to balance their books.




