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Expanded calendar has to make financial sense insist teams

It is a matter of fact that if FOM gets its way and finally introduces a budget cap, one of the main areas where teams will seek to save money will be their headcount. However, with the sport's owners looking to expand the calendar - with some claiming as many as 25 races - teams argue that they would actually need to employ more staff. Furthermore, in the wake of two races that were almost instantly forgettable, such was the lack of racing, there are fears the sport is putting quantity before quality. 'You have to look at the human logistics in a lot of this,' says Force India's Robert Fernley. 'Twenty races, we're very much on the edge of being able to maintain it with one crew, one...
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