Explained Which Rules Of The F1 Cost Budget Cap Did Red Bull And Aston Martin Breach

Explained Which Rules Of The F1 Cost Budget Cap Did Red Bull And Aston Martin Breach

F1 teams are waiting for a formal notification from the FIA about the cost cap rules breach by Red Bull and Aston Martin

The notification will tell whether or not their accounts for 2021 season are under spending limits.

A few teams with which FIA is happy will issue a compliance certificate while other outfits that broke the limit will likely face sanctions.

Which Rules Of The F1 Cost Budget Cap Did Red Bull And Aston Martin Breach

Though there has been formal confirmation from the FIA about potential non-compliance with the cost cap, there is anticipation that 2 teams may have been found to have broken the rules.

As per reports suggest, one of the squad had a “minor,” breach of the rules with an overspend of less than 5 percent of the limit while the other was much larger and was a “material” breach.

As of now, the focus within the paddock has been on Aston Martin and Red Bull. The situation of Red Bull’s particularly intriguing because it won last year’s championship title.

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However, in Singapore, on Friday, Red Bull team’s boss Christian Horner spoke up and expressed his confidence that his team had complied with the rules.

In a media interaction, he was asked by Sky F1 if he was aware of any cost cap breach, to which Horner replied that, “I am certainly not aware of any.”

He further added, “The accounts were all submitted way back in March. So it’s been a long process with the FIA, going through that, and we’re in that process as we speak.

“They’re rightly following that process, and I think next week, mid next week, is when they declare the certificates.

“I think that certainly our submission was below the cap. And it’s down to the FIA, obviously, to follow their process, which they’re currently doing.”

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Meanwhile Horner has expressed his confidence in his own team’s submission, the official approval of the spending and interpretations of expenses that falls within or outside the cap can only be made by the FIA.

Red Bull’s boss Horner admitted that as the governing body has dug deep in its forensic analysis for each team’s accounts certain new interpretations have definitely emerged.

He said, “This is the first time this has ever happened. But we do our due diligence, and we get audited anyway.

Horner continued, “Inevitably it is a brand new set of regulations, and a set of very complicated regulations, so how rules are interpreted or applied, inevitably, are going to be subjective between the teams,” he explained.

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