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Originally Posted by M3WC
Good. This cap has accomplished nothing.
It has brought zero parity. Williams is still last and the top three remain.
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you expectations are shockingly absent of logic. the CAP is not an overnight change - the CAP will absolutely bring parity or at minimum close the gap substantially, but it will take years to transition.. Teams with billion dollar annual budgets for 10 years running are well ahead of teams that operated off a small fraction of that budget... The top teams accumulated in-house knowledge through extensive R&D provided by those big budgets and large labor pools gave them access to pull way ahead.
Do you really expect that a team that was trained and skilled will just "forget" everything they learned? or like Men In Black, are you looking for a little hand held tool to erase people's memory?
It's going to to take 5-10 years for this to happen as a slow burn, teams knowledge will fade over time, the more the rules, strategy, technology and sport changes the less existing knowledge base applies... and the harder it will be for teams to adapt within budget... immediate effect was MB dropping back and McLaren falling apart this season. Overall this is a long transition.
the CAP is absolutely the right direction... it doesn't mean that every team will be identical... some teams have better directors, hire better talent, have better strategy and execution... oh and not to mention, some drivers ARE actually better than other drivers... the CAP won't make Latifi drive like Max.
look at baseball - that is what you get with no cap.. a disaster of a sports that pay to win
Now look at football - (still a disaster of a sport
) but the cab levels the playing field so there is more team diversity in playoffs, teams go through cycles of winning and loosing, superbowls are won by different teams and it's spread out. this truely means that "anything can happen on a Sunday" look at the Steelers, arguably the greatest team in NFL history - but they are current the worst team in league right now. 100% attributed to the CAP. by them sitting in last place it gives crap teams like the Browns & Bungles opportunity to win... and they are!
that's the effect of the CAP.