It’s also an important vehicle for focused R&D. F-E for example has specific rules in place, that change each year, to stimulate the advancement of specific bits of electric car technology.
I'm not sure whether that's true or not. I worked in one of the automotive companies which had a F1 team. It was a totally separate business unit. I haven't heard about collaboration between engineers on that team with ones which were working on regular products and the other way around.
