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Video: This is how much money you need to build an F1 car

21st November 2017
Ethan Jupp

The question of funding around Formula 1 cars is a hotly discussed one. Just how ludicrously expensive are these things? It doesn’t bear thinking about. You might as well tuck your wallet up with a warm cup of cocoa and hotfoot it to your plumpest looking hedge fund before you can get a look in. Happily, our friends at WTF1 have, amid similar hyperbole, actually given us some solid figures. More or less than what you thought?

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