Red Bull believe as many as six teams could breach F1 cost cap in 2022
After 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:striking an Accepted Breach Agr꧅eement with F1’s governing body the FIA, Red Bull were slapped with a $7m fine, as wꦺell as a 10 percent reduction in aerodynamic testing for the next 12 months for exceeding the $145m spending limit through 2021.
Red Bull were the only F1 team found to have overspent during 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s maiden ♓title-winning campaign, with the🐷ir breach put at £1.8m.
Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko reckons several of their ♎F1 rivals could find themselves in breach of the $140m cap set for this season.
"I think the current situation is that six teams are above it," Marko told Germany’s Auto Motor Und Sport.
"Inflatio🥂n is something that was 🐼not calculable to that extent. Especially with energy costs.”
And Marꦐko is not convinced F1’s financial regulat🔯ions are having the desired impact.
"So far, the budget cap has not changed anything at all,” he added. “Why should it be differen⛄t in the future? You simply have to develop better.
"Of course, we are affected by the fact that we alrea💎dy have fewer wind tunnel hou☂rs because we won the constructors' championship.
"Now we have to get every test right. But in the end it always depends on the quality of th🅠e staff.”
In July, the 2022 budget cap was increased by 3🦂.1 percent as a result of the global inflation crওisis, but Red Bull believe some teams may still fall foul of the rules. However, they are confident of avoiding making the same mistake twice.
“A danger for 2022 is t𒆙hat there could be six teꩲams in breach of the cap,” said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.
“Energy prices have been exponenti♚al, but thankfully we've b🌸een protected from that.
“But there is that chance that several ꦑteams, many of which have stated it during F1 commi𒀰ssion meetings, will break the cap this year.
“We do not believe that𒐪 we will break the cap in 2022, but these penalties set precedent f𒀰or the future. So if you get 10% for 0.37% breach, what is the 5% breach going to be?”
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