Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekis thinks the effect of the sanctions the FIA is imposing on Red Bull Racing for violations of the financial regulations will be limited as they will not affect the team’s budget next year.
In accordance with the agreements between the FIA and Red Bull, the team must pay a fine of $7 million, and over the next 12 months, the time it will be given for aerodynamic research, including the use of CFD technologies, are limited by 10%.
“At Ferrari, we don’t understand how the time limit a team spends on aerodynamic research can match the same percentage of time in terms of lap results,” Mekisa quoted The Race as saying. – In addition, there is another problem, which is that the fine does not provide for cuts (in 2023), and the effect will essentially be this: the team will be pushed to spend money on something else.
She is given complete freedom to use the money she cannot spend on wind tunnel or CFD research due to the 10% cap. For example, she may instruct them to reduce the weight of the car or whatever.
Due to the combination of these two factors, the actual effect of the fine will be very limited and that worries us.”
The budget cap set by the financial regulations at $145 million in 2021 was reduced to $140 million this year, to $135 million in 2023, but these are baseline values and the actual costs of teams may be higher due to different types of tolerances and coefficients that take inflation into account.
Source: F1 News
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