bill shoe wrote: ↑20 Jun 2018, 15:54
Potential sale of SFI is important precisely because this team has been extremely well managed over the last 3 or 4 seasons and punched above their weight. Yes, it looks clear they need to sell, but no joy in that. Potential sale matters because if SFI doesn't sell or sells to a buyer who's just trying to flip it, then it becomes a zombie-team like Lotus during the last 1-2 years before Renault bought them back, or like Sauber over the last 2 or 3 years when they were trawling for qualified buyers and living on a shoestring.
Don't let this midfield success story turn into another zombie team!
They can bring in other measures to counter smaller teams from running out of money, like a budget cap or timely Grand Prix prize money distribution. Sauber suffered the same fate last season, due to lack of funds they were uncompetitive. This buying-selling logic only seems to alleviate the bottleneck for the time being.
Can you also predict if some new owner with their own style of management doesn't go the paid driver route like Williams have and become a back-maker team?
We have to acknowledge to the fact that the reason this team has punched consistently above their waist is because the current management's unflinching vision to be competitive without cutting corners either in terms of drivers they recruit or the car's components they have procured from vendors.
