You can make reliable engines, it just means reducing that cutting edge technology which makes one engine better than the other.
If you equalise all the engines you could, in principle, all be racing with a Ford Mondeo engine.
Teams then would spend megabucks improving things like aerodyanamics in order to keep ahead.
Whenever you restrict spending in one area it will always move to another area in order for a team to keep that edge.
The only real way to cut the costs is to make everyone drive the same car then, as someone already said, you a version of A1 called F1.
You can make reliable engines, it just means reducing that cutting edge technology which makes one engine better than the other.
If you equalise all the engines you could, in principle, all be racing with a Ford Mondeo engine.
Teams then would spend megabucks improving things like aerodyanamics in order to keep ahead.
Whenever you restrict spending in one area it will always move to another area in order for a team to keep that edge.
The only real way to cut the costs is to make everyone drive the same car then, as someone already said, you a version of A1 called F1.
just eat another pie