The sad thing is that the manufactures don't seem to understand that in these times it's not done to spend so much money on Formula One while in normal life those companies have to let go a lot of paid workers (and their families).
Explain to Mr. #345 from the Renault factory that he is to be fired but his boss spends 100 million on the development of a formula 1 car..
The last ten years the costs and the sponsordeals just went up up and up, and its us, the fans, that have to pay for it.
Take Spa: they lost 5,000,000 euro's last year by organising the Grand Prix of Belgium. Only 57,000 spectators were present according to RTL GP. Thats less then the amount of fans that went to the A1GP on Zandvoort. That should ring a bell.
Its cheaper to take your wife and three kids a week to Turkey on holiday then buying one single F1 ticket for Spa