Id value Hispania a little less than €50m, probably arround the €40m mark, as for Virgin, their value is now arround the €75m mark now.
As for buying a team, all fine and well, but for getting P10 in the Constructors Title for year 1 you get arround €20m and if you comne P10 or higer for two or more consecuitive years you then get €34.5m prise money. If you are in the 2 non prize money places you will get arround €8.5m freight costs given to you, and no cash.
So it really pays for a young rick guy to buy a seat, as if he shines the chances of him moving up the grid will get him into a faster car and his sponsors will come with. Pretty much a double plus for many teams.
Charls Pic is reputedly paying Marussia €21m for a seat in 2012, Karthekeyn was paying via TATA €1m a race in 2011, €500,000 would be paid uppon qualification with another simmilar ammount paid uppon him placing ahead of his team mate. The €21.5m TATA/Karthekeyn deal was gonna be huge, however after only earning 8 Qualis and 3 placings, it earnt Hispania just €5.5m in Performance Payments and the initial €2.5m in cash from TATA, hence why when Riccardo came allong with €10m from Red Bull they snatched at it. As it was good money for Hispania in the bank, and when it came to getting them to the end of the season €10m was gonna do it and then some. Liuzzi was to take part in the Indian GP, but another payment came from Red Bull for this race to give Riccardo another race in the car. Id rather take the money from Red Bull than TATA personally.
When you put a Young driver day cost into comparison this is where it gets really whacky, it was reported that Leimer, Checcon, Colletti, Checcotto Jr and Charuz all paid somewhere in the region of €350,000 to €600,000 for a day or two in a car, Charuz deal at Hispania was €600,000 for a day in the car to get his 1A licence then to take place in FP1 at Brazil as well. Checcon and Coletti each pais STR €450,000 for a day and a half in the STR6, and Leimer paid Sauber €400,000 for a seat for a day in the C31.
This is another reason that some teams want Testing back, as the young guys will pay stupid money for a test seat, just in the off chance a team may see something and then ditch a race driver for a them.
Id recon that if Bruno can come up with €15m id take him, he is more than two-thirds of the way there already, so id be prepaired to give him a seat. However there is another unknown in the Senna-Williams mix ill add, if Lotus Renault GP were to have him as a TD, but also racing for Williams next year, if something dosnt wok out with Kimi or Romain, its easy to get him into the Renault as he is race sharp. And if Lotus were to pay the €8m minimum that Williams will be paying Renault for the RS27 power next year, thats your €21m that would secure a seat right there.
When Sutil has just €8m to spend from Medion and Capri Sun, i know who id choose if i needed the money. Also Medion are owned by Lenovo now, who left Williams in bad spirit by terminationg their contract 3 years early so they could sponsor McLaren for more money and less exposure. I doubt that Sutiil will be at Williams next year. If anything id recon that Senna will be there, if not Senna, id recon that Petrov or even Glock have a better chance as if Marussia want Petrov in their car, they may have to buy Glock the Williams seat for the remaining 2 years of his contract.
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