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Originally Posted by SHY
Taking away the constructors championship is indeed a good idea, who really cares about that anyway?
Still, I think Ferrari wants a driver's win most of all. The constructors is just "nice to have". So it wouldn't really help much as to team orders in my opinion.
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Who cares?!!!!!!
They all care, and they all care to the tune of $37m if you come in tenth place in the Constructors!! That's what it will mean to Lotus if they manage to beat all the other new teams.
The winning team gets $80m. These amounts have almost tripled in the last four years, and are the biggest bone of contention between Bernie and the Teams. Although the money has gone up substantially, they still think that (roughly) 50% to Bernie and 50% to them is a poor deal - and it used to be that the Teams got less! Also bear in mind that sponsorship is harder to come by these days, and so these amounts mean a lot to every team...
...except Ferrari. They are run by the car company, and they don't really need as much sponsorship as the others. In that respect you have a point - it doesn't mean as much to Ferrari as the Drivers Championship. But the others want to run their teams to their benefit in terms of the Constructors title, and care less about the Drivers title. Getting the Drivers title costs them money, getting the Constructors title makes them money.
Still a bad do about Ferrari blatantly breaking the Rules - here's hoping the FIA take a dimmer view than the Stewards...