Remaining F1 Constructors’ Championship Battles Have Big Financial Implications

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Published: October 16, 2016

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Mercedes may have locked up their third straight Formula One constructors' title with four races remaining, but there are still several important battles raging lower down in the standings.

The casual fan may not get too excited about whether Williams can catch Force India for fourth place or if Sauber can steal a point to pass Manor for 10th place, but it matters to the teams. As we will see, constructors' championship prize money makes up approximately half of the budget of some of F1's smaller teams.

Realistically, there are three places left undecided in the constructors' standings: second, fourth and 10th. And while Ferrari could still catch Red Bull for second, it is looking increasingly unlikely.

The Scuderia had at least one driver on the podium at eight of the first nine races this year. Since the British Grand Prix, though, they have just one top-three result. Red Bull have nine podium finishes since the Silverstone race and have outscored Ferrari 217 to 143 since then.

Either way, it will not make a huge difference to either of those big teams. The difference in prize money paid to the second- and third-place teams for the 2015 season, according to Autosport's Dieter Rencken and Lawrence Barretto, was $10 million (refer to the Column 2 amounts for Ferrari and Williams).

For us mortals, $10 million is a fortune, but when you are talking about F1 teams with budgets in the hundreds of millions, it is not a big deal (Note: This article uses 2015 budget estimates and prize-money figures for illustrative purposes; assume similar figures for this year).



Among the smaller teams, though, an increase or decrease of a few million in their budgets can affect their competitiveness.

For that reason, the battle for fourth place is more interesting.

Williams' 2015 budget, according to Business Book GP (h/t City A.M.'s Joe Hall), was €...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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