It can also be useful to take infrastructure into account when trying to assess efficiency. HRT is the smallest financially with 34M for 2011. McLaren are also rumored to be in the same ballpark, but again I couldn't find a precise figure. They announced a 10% cut for 2011, so it would be 72 million, a bit over a third of Ferrari's purse.Īs far as Red Bull goes, their 2010 budget was rumored to be around 180M, and it was announced by the team that it increased this year, probably thanks to the FOM image rights from last year's championship win. And Mercedes' 2011 budget is even less than that. So the 2010 Mercedes budget was less than half that of Ferrari's 2011 budget. And Mercedes have publicly said they would not give any money to the team and that the full funding had to come from sponsorships and FOM image rights, that's how they got the Daimler shareholders to accept the purchase of the F1 team. Nothing from Mercedes, except from buying the team. 30M from Petronas, and 50M from FOM for having won the 2009 championship. Which is why many think they do not really abide to the RRA. Red Bull has actually increased its budget this season, the only top team to do so. Here is the info I have gathered for now:įrom most of what I've been able to dig up from different sources, Ferrari has the biggest 2001 budget (199M Euros), with McLaren and Red Bull not far behind. Kind of like the wheelbase comparison thread, but financial. In order to have a metric to do those comparisons, maybe we could try to compile a list of the 2011 team budgets. On several occasions, the argument of "doing more for less" has showed up in this forum when comparing performances from different teams.
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