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Originally Posted by techweenie
Red Bull as a team has always irritated me, because I've always felt a team should ideally be based on an engine builder.
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F1 has never been that way. Pick any given year in the modern era and constructors buying engines make up the vast bulk of the field.
I just went to Wikipedia, and randomly selected 1975.
25 separate entrants that year, most of them used Ford engines, only BRM and Ferrari were constructors that built their own engines, Matra supplied engines to one entrant, and only Ferrari also built road cars.
Many of the entrants bought chassis' from such as Lotus or McLaren, and stabbed a Ford Cosworth into the back and gave Grand Prix racing a try.