I'm interested in the cost of some items on a typical Formula 1 car.
Obviously unless Ross Brawn or Patrick Head frequents this forum I know I'm unlikely to get the honest truth, but can anybody provide educated estimates to the following:

(1) Modern F1 steering wheels are ultra-complicated pieces of carbon-fibre and electronics with umpteen lights buttons and switches, far removed from the leather-wrapped rim of even 20 years ago.
Realistically, how much does a modern F1 steering wheel cost and how many would a typical team go through in a year?
I have heard estimates as high as £50,000 for one wheel, but I don't know if this is true or not.

(2) Mirrors are now almost an aerodynamic device in their own right, with debate about should they be mounted inboard or outboard, on horizontal or vertical fins etc. Significant resources are spent on CFD, wind tunnel time, carbon construction, rapid prototyping etc to produce something that performs the same job as this.
When you take into account labour, materials, designing, aero testing etc, how much do we estimate a team spends on mirrors in a season?

Thanks

Hard to see how unit cost of manufacture really means anything to an F1 team. If a mirror has several hours of wind tunnel time in it and they make eight of them, that's a f**king expensive mirror by civilian standards, and the difference between two hours and four hours will affect the price horrendously. You can see how F1 teams don't spend a lot of time costing out each component. Instead, funding is distributed along particular development paths. Now, if they were building a hundred cars per year and selling them, unit cost figures become important.

So if you don't mind my saying so, it's kind of a pointless question. Unless of course you are a journalist doing a gee-whiz story and would like to blow peoples' minds with crazy numbers. In that case more power to you. The mirrors cost a hundred grand each, whatever. Pick a number. Actually, a production car mirror costs big money to develop and tool as well, but the cost is amortized among hundreds of thousands of units. With that kind of volume an F1 mirror would be dirt cheap too.