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F1 budget cap proposals serve only to complicate matters

Formula 1's governing body is proposing a cost cap plan for the sport, along the lines of the idea outlined recently by former FIA president Max Mosley but small teams question why big teams, with massive budgets, would accept smaller teams spending less yet still able to challenge them and beat them. While there is consensus up and down pitlane about needing to speed up the cars and spice up the ‘show', there is still wide disagreement about how best to keep the struggling small teams alive. Mosley's successor as FIA president, Jean Todt, has already vowed to cap the exorbitant costs of buying a modern ‘power unit', but Sauber chief Monisha Kaltenborn insists: 'It's not...
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