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CMV: In certain forms of motorsport, the competition isn't to see who has the best driver, but to see who has the most money, best car, best pit crew and the best tuners.

These motorsports aren't very technical. Drag racing and land speed racing is go in a straight line as fast as you can. It's when motorsports start to have corners in them that the required skill to compete becomes higher. At least in drifting, autocross, rally and endurance racing, there's a big skill component that plays into the sport because of all the corners involved. Heck, even NASCAR takes a lot of skill to perform well in.

In drag racing, unless your car breaks or your driver is a COMPLETE idiot, a tube chassis drag car with a billet engine block will beat an average joe with an iron block Mustang motor 95% of the time. Horsepower costs money, and a lot of it once you get into the quadruple digits. Race gas can be 10 dollars a gallon or more, and you burn a lot of fuel going fast. Top Fuel drag cars need to rebuild their engines after every run and a bad rebuild can make or break the next race the car is in.
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Drag racing isn't as simple as you make it out to be. If you knew much about drag racing you'd know there are classes to keep competitors on an even playing field. If you bring out your stock mustang, you can drag race against another stock mustang.  Or you can invest to make your mustang faster, and race against faster cars. 

Your top fuel dragsters are top of the heap, they generate so much power it is an engineering feat to get them down the track on one pass, and serious training is required to pilot those machines. Drivers don't get paid to drive easy cars. They get paid to drive cars that are hard to handle. If the cars are easy to drive, they are slow, and they lose. 

You would be wrong to say that Mercedes passes more cars in F1. There are two reasons for this, first is they start at the front. Not many to pass. Second because they know they will start from the front, they design the cars to be optimal out in the front. This actually hinders them when they aren't in the front. You can see Lewis Hamilton cut through the field in a Mercedes, because he is one of the best out there. His teammate, although a great driver often gets stuck behind slower cars when stuck in the pack. All professional drivers have awesome car control, but not all professional drivers are of equal skill. Some are just better. 

Racing is truly a team sport when you get into the professional ranks. Every aspect of the race is optimized, so having the best talent to do that increases your chances at success. Everyone who excels at what they do demand more compensation for their advanced skills. So it's just plain logic that spending more money should get you more results. But you have to balance that spend. That's what makes a great racing team.