yeah.... so.. What we got here is the comparison between heritage cars with legacies behind them, and cars where if once crashes, you make another.
To be honest, the prices are almost spot on with a USD or maybe even EUR... If you think prices are inflated, you must not be that into racing to see how expensive it is. When you buy a car for a racing team, you pay for the parts, and you pay man hours. After that car is old and ready to be sold, they sell for parts+labor+any appreciation of costs.
I'm pretty sure however, there is no labor factors in gt, but i can be damn well sure of that prices are very similar. And so what if no one knows how much a xJ13 is. Or maybe even an F1 or whatever else is. The main point to the level of inflation is the fact that the heritage cars have legacies behind them, while an F1 can be mocked up and rebuilt for next weekend. Maybe later in our lives, an RB8 will go for 45 million just because Vettle sat in it. But for the most part an RB8 is no where near that much. The same with say an R18. Right now it costs Audi I read (ill find the link) about 1.4 million per R18 just to make it run. That isn't including however salaries towards drivers, crew, engineers, managers, etc.. I remeber from the first "Truth in 24" where Dr. Ulrich was talking to some Shell Diesel exec, about the 2008 sebring race, where almost all the cars had faults, and it cost the team 700,000 euros, even before the actual race. He said management told him to fire all the drivers and i almost 🤬 my pants.
Anyways, that got off topic.. Yeah, its all about inflation and stories in racing.
