The smaller teams are caught between having a relatively small amount of income from F1's commercial rights holders, declining sponsorship figures as a result of the global financial slowdown, declining overall worldwide television audiences and rising costs.
So, if Google's core business is eventually at risk of a slowdown, or decline, where does it go from here?
The global economic slowdown, the decline in travel following last year's terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the lingering effects of a mild winter in the northern hemisphere hit the company's gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel production businesses.
Parents squealed last fall when state colleges, pinched by the economic slowdown and declines in state aid, raised yearly tuitions, many of them by several hundred dollars a student.
Even some discount retail chains — the one group that had been managing to tread water amid the economic slowdown — reported declines.
China's economic slowdown, further declines in the price of natural resources and the prospect of higher interest rates in the US combined to create a powerful selling case.
Note also the slowdown in the decline in 2015.
Stocks of many stores, including Penney, have fallen amid a housing slowdown and a decline in consumer spending.
But the economic slowdown and the decline in state aid have forced those institutions to cut some costs and raise fees.
A slowdown in the decline of home prices, along with hints of improvement in some areas, helped Fannie Mae earn a profit and cover its $2.8 billion dividend to the Treasury in the first quarter.
A slowdown in the decline of home prices and in the number of homes entering serious delinquency allowed the company to eke out a profit after paying its dividend to the Treasury.
