FIA ‘make offer’ to Red Bull over cost cap breach - will they accept it?
F1’s governing body has gone down the first avenue of responding to a ‘minor’ overspend by setting out the terms of an ‘Accepted Breach Agreement’ to Red Bull, who were 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:found guilty of breaching the $145m cost cap during168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen's maiden title-winning campaign in 2021.
An Accepted Breach Agreement - or ABA - is where the team in question accepts they have done wrong and agree to follow certain actions that will be taken by the FIA’s Cost Cap Aﷺdminist🐽ration.
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The details are currently confidential and Red Bull must now decide whether to accept the terms laid🌟 out by the FIA, or go before the Cꩵost Cap Adjudication Panel.
Accepting the ABA route would mean Red Bull would be hit with a minor sporting penalty and cannot lose constructors’ champion♑ship points, drivers’ championship points or a reduction in the cost cap.
If Red Bull opted to challenge the FIA, the matter would be heard by a panel of independent judges to determine whether the party was guilty or not, and what penalty would be 🤡handed out.
In this scenario, the aforementioned pꦑunishments would be options.
Sky Sports has reported that Red Bull will call a press conference on Friday morning in Austin to address the cost cap breach ahead of this weekend’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: United States Grand Prix.
Red Bull’s rivals point finger amid cost cap saga
Red Bull’s F1 rivals have call𓄧ed for severe punishment to be handed out amid the ongoing saga.
Two t🎀eam bosses have told Sky Sports anonymously that Red Bull’s breach of t🅰he $145m spending limit for 2021 should be met with a substantial penalty.
"We tend to agree that teams can gain a sign😼ific🧸ant advantage by not adhering to the cap,” one said. “The punishment must be such that the advantage gained is removed and then some in order to disincentivise future breaches.”
Another team boss said: “The FIA should be left the freedom to do its own investigati꧂on and come up with the appropriate penalty, it should not be a case of teams pushing for this or that outco🅺me.”
But they added: “It is obvious to us that a penalty will need to go well beyond a fine, or else teams will just🍰 game the syste🔜m and consider the fine as cost of business.
“B🤪ut it is for the FIA to find their solution, aware of the fact t🎉hat failure to do so will mean the end of the budget cap.”
It comes after a letter from McLaren boss Zak Brown to the FIA emerged in w🎃hich he declared that overspending.
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