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Liberty Media are set to reveal plans for a budget cap in Formula 1, all aimed at allowing smaller teams to catch up and make the field more competitive. The sport has been under fire in the last four or so years as Mercedes has run riot, winning 83% of all Grands Prix since 2014.
One idea is a Nascar-like system, where at a certain point of the season, cars and engines must be presented to the competition so that technical secrets are revealed.
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However even some of the non-frontrunning teams disagree with this method, including Force India: "Not everything that works in other sports is transferable to Formula 1," said Force India sporting boss Otmar Szafnauer. "The Nascar rule does not fit with the DNA of F1. Whoever wants equality of opportunity should give everyone the same money.
Auto Motor und Sport states that Liberty will announce their plans in the summer and run it for a trial year with no actual effects making their way into F1. CEO of F1 Chase Carey said that their goal is to make the sport less predictable.
"Everyone understands that the sport can only be healthy if it offers spectators action and competition and races whose outcome is not predictable.
"Toto Wolff recently said 'If Ferrari wins, that is good for the sport' and that's the point. He understands that it is about the sport. If one team wins everything, it has won the battle but lost the war if nobody is watching anymore," he added.
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Yeah.. It seems too.. I'm not sure, as if all a teams' hard work is for nothing