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Originally Posted by Dr.Brian
Apparently Mercedes and Ferrari have some sweetheart deals as well regardless of the constructors championship result with guaranteed super payments or something. One of the teams leads was talking about that a few months ago and how it's a disadvantage to all the other teams and gives M and F a significant advantage. I think they were taking about how to try to attract new teams, like Haas, into the sport. It was something they hoped would change with the new management of F1. Though I don't really know much about the business aspect of the sport, only what they were saying. If that's also true, it's clearly an unfair advantage.
It seems like they need more of an Indy style shake up with less emphasis on spending hundreds of millions on custom cars and more on driver skill and some old fashioned luck.
It's also odd to me that the whole competition is about the constructors championship but much of the sponsors are loyal to drivers. That's a strange set up.
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Mainly Ferrari. As mentioned earlier they get about $100M just for showing up. RB, Mercedes, McLaren, and Williams also get money for showing up but nowhere near the amount Ferrari gets. Even though Ferrari has been crap the past 3 years, they still received more money than Mercedes this yearwho has won everything from 2014-2016.
http://www.totalsportek.com/f1/formula-1-prize-money/