Adam
But you can't buy car stats with money or coins, they only help you buy facility upgrades at your headquarters and the upgrades take time. Right now I have about 54m and finishing on the podium every race in pro and losing money every race. If had 200m that wouldn't change anything I'm doing I'd still only be able to upgrade one facility at a time at my headquarters and I'd still have to wait the same amount of time for them to progress. It would allow me to spend more money on staff and driver but if my driver stars are already maxed out for my level then there is no point. I think the game has a an issues overall by try to keep things to even. That is what the different leagues are for are they not?? When your team get to dominant you upgrade to pro or expert. Also there is caps on car stats in place aswell to keep teams from becoming to dominant in there division.
Hi Adam. There is more to it than upgrading facilities. As you say, at the moment you are finishing on the podium every race and are still losing money. To prevent you from spiralling into debt you will presumably be converting a proportion of your sponsor tokens into cash. Imagine that you had much more money for wages and as a further bonus you didn't have to waste tokens to keep you out of debt...
You could afford wages for much better drivers and back room staff.
You could afford to have multiple CDs and reserve drivers
You will find that even hiring drivers from your youth academy is hugely expensive and then you have to pay their wages as reserves whilst you train them.
Training can be accelerated by using the tokens you save by not converting them to cash (don't forget your drivers can be trained right up to 20 no matter what Manager level you are at).
You would have more tokens available to purchase engines and parts.
Tokens can be used to accelerate the building of your facilities.
A combination of these benefits will help teams stay ahead of the competition and make it much more difficult for newer managers to break the dominance of the top teams which will be more evident to you when you promote to Elite.
In principle I welcome your prize money proposal because it would certainly help me. In old iGP it was easy to build a war chest of hundreds of millions of pounds, this money was migrated to the new game last year which means that many of the managers who have been here for over a year probably still have a huge bank balance which is one of the reasons they are so successful.