A season costs only 150m $ and for those teams is nothing.
Even if they end the season earning 0 $ as RBR and Ferrari and Mercedes do, they earn through marketing.
Basically, they pay 150m $ for marketing, every year.
I agree, that's the point of this. I mean sure, there are ones like Haas and Williams, which are losing money, but they are probably making enough from sponsorships to continue, and from the league as well. Which means that they are going to continue for a while longer. I remember clearly back in the day when teams changed names all the time, it still exists to this day, we had renoult and racing point and all that till recently.
All in all, F1 is very expensive for a lot of companies aside from a few, and doesn't make sense to spend it neither. Just to explain further, apple and google and microsoft could have their own teams, spend a billion dollars per year, and they would still be fine, because they are rich, but it wouldn't mean anything. Whereas Mercedes or Ferrari or Red Bull could spend this money, and their marketing in return does mean something because it's related, they can sell more, google won't be used more just because they won F1 but mercedes may sell more cars.
