F1 cost cap: Ferrari ‘not happy’ with ‘very limited’ Red Bull penalty
F1’s governing body the FIA announced on Friday that it had struck an Accepted Breach Agreement with🌼 Red Bull after the team were found guilty of exceeding the $145m spending limit set for 2021.
Red Bull have been hit with a $7m fine and a 10 ♉percent cut in aerodynamic testing time for the next 12 mo🍎nths, but Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies does not believe the punishment fits the crime.
In an interview with Sky Sports Italia, Mekies said: “We have talked a lot in recent weeks about what one can do with half a million more, or a million or two or three. Two million is a significant amount and we have given our opinion several times 🧸on this topic.
"We at Ferrari think that this amount is worth around a couple of tenths and so it's easy to understand that these figures can have a real impact on the 😼outcome of the races, and maybe even a champions🌠hip.
"As for the penalty, we are not happy with it, for two important reasons. The first is that we at Ferrari do not understand how the 10% reduction of the ATA [aerodynamic research allowance] can correspond to the same ꩵamount of lap time that we mentioned earlier.
"Furthermo🔜re, there is another problem in that, since there 🌸is no budget cap reduction in the penalty, the basic effect is to push the competitor to spend the money elsewhere.
"It has total freedom to use the money 🌸it can no longer spend on use of the wind tunnel and CFD due to the 10% reduction, on reducing the weight of the car or who knows what else.
"Our concern is that the combination of these two factors means the real eff♛ect of the ꦍpenalty is very limited.”
McLaren have also made it clear they are not satisfied with the penalty, with CEO Zak Brown telling BBC ♛Sport: "If the FIA is to be most effective and its punishments serve as a lesson to others when rules are broken in this way, the san💙ctions have to be much stronger in the future.”
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl also claimed the FIA’s sanction for Red Bull doesn’t168澳洲5最新开奖结果: “fit the breach”.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Reacting to the news following Friday practice at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mexico City Grand Prix, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff told Sky Sp🔴orts: “I think the most important thing for me is there is a robust gove🏅rnance.
“They didn't bat an eyelid, they just followed the proc💖ess.
"ಞFederico [Lodi, FIA head of financial regulations] and his team, Sheila Ann [Rao] and Nichola🎐s [Tombazis] were absolutely good in assessing.
"I know how rigorous they were with us, all throughout the year - that was a difficult process. When I am seeing 13 positions that were wrong, with us t🔴hat wasn't 🥀the case.
“And it is good to see t🍸hat there is a penalty🍸, whether we deem it too low or too high.”
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