Why Red Bull ‘begrudgingly’ accepted their F1 cost cap penalty
The FIA announced on Friday that it had struck an Accepted Breach Ag▨reement with Red Bull aft🍌er finding 🉐it had exceeded the $145m cost cap for 2021 by $2.2m.
Red Bull has been hit with a $7m fine for the ‘minor’ breach, as well receiving a 10 percent reduction in their aerodynamic testing allowance over the nex♏t 12 months.
Horner, who warned the impact of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“draconian” penalty 💟will be “enormous” for Red Bull’s development of their 2023 car, explained why his team choose th𝔍e ABA route instead of appealing.
“We accept that this set of regulations is immature, we accept this FIA administration has inherited these regulations, and there's an awful loﷺt of wor🃏k for the future,” he said during a press conference addressing the matter ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix.
“Had we ꦉdragged it out through the administration process, to got to an appeal, that could have taken months, and beyond that at the International Court of Appeal, that could have taken further months. So we🦂 could have been looking at a 12-month period to have this situation closed.
“With the amount of speculation an💞d commenting and sniping that hജas been going on in the paddock, we thought it was in everyone's interest to say that we close the book here and today.
"We accept the penalties, begrudgingly, but we accept them. Collectively we have a duty🍃 of care, together with the other entrants, because in those 75,000 items not one other team has made a single error.
“I think there are lessons for everyone to learn because I think the cost cap is an important part of F1 and its future. But it has to be in a manner that i♊s consistent and ꦅapplicable and developed.
“With such a new concept of incredibly complex regulations around different entities, different subsidiary companies, companies that belong to OEMs, companies th𒅌at are independent, companies🍒 that are subsidiaries of an energy drinks manufacturer, our structure and cost base, is all different between all of those entities.
“So that is why we've chosen to accept it. We take it on the chin, but as I say, it's t🌸ime to put it to 💦bed and move on.”
Horner a꧋dded: “Would the information have been any different with the appeal panel?
“Within a new set of regulations like this, and of course with the suite of penalties that they have available withi🌃n that, could be even more draconian.
“Whilst we feel hard done by, that there were absolutely mitigating circumstances, to drag that process out, we didn🌌’t feel, was in anyo💦ne's interest.
“It’s been a huge learning experience for us and I’m sure others have learnt watching from the sidelines. The cost cap is an important part of F1’s success in the future, but it need to applied in 🍎the right way.
“To potentially blow that a🐭part as well, would not have been th൲e right thing to do.”
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