https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVXrPImStw"
A little bit of fact and a whole lot of opinion in that video.
The fact is that over the course of a season the cost of running these new last-forever hybrids is significantly higher than back when they used to run 20 engines in a weekend.
Everybody knew Mercedes was sandbagging when they claimed they had spent $250 million USD developing their 2014 V-6 turbo-hybrid. In 2019 they revealed that to that date they had spent $1.4 BILLION on its development. Amortized over six seasons comes to $233 MILLION USD per. To that point Mercedes counted it well-spent because their indomitable V6-T engine had won 74% of all races in that period, including six WDC & WCC double-titles on the trot. Which drastically inflated both Hambone's reputation and his ego (as if such a thing were possible).
Ferrari is believed to have spent still more but only won 14% of races in the same timeframe. It's unlikely any constructor (who fancies winning) is spending less than $200 million per season on engine development. Times four engine constructors is $800 million per season.
Red Bull customer engines are believed to go for $16 million per copy. So for Red Bull engine clients, the eight pre-penalty engines cost $128 million.
So the part he left out of the video is the real reason the cars now are so reliable is the engines are made from pure cubic dollars.
He also left out that the goal of the V6-T hybrids was to reduce fuel consumption by 35%. Which means that based on the excess engine costs of the V6-T hybrids it's costing F1 several thousand dollars for each liter of fuel they're saving compared to the 2013 season.
Maybe it's just me but I don't find that very economical.
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