The Uk Independent newspaper has published an analysis of the 2013 Red Bull Racing accounts. It shows that the Red Bull drinks company, its owner, paid only £13M towards its costs despite deriving vast global sponsorship benefits.
If the article is correct Red Bull spent £196M in 2013, up 30% in 5 years to employ 675 staff. However oustide sponsorship, but much more importantly prize money, covered all but £13m of that cost.So Dietrich Mateschitz spends only £13M of his companies' money or just 5 times the crowdfunding needed to get Caterham on teh back of the grid for one race.
That £13m is apparently down by £54M or 80% from 2012.
No wonder Christian Horner shouts so loudly about not giving up any money to the smaller teams, his boss is getting a virtually free ride in F1 despite employing 675 people.