![]() ![]() So, it is far more likely that this penalty is going to impact Red Bull as the 2023 season progresses, as teams armed with far more time to test their innovations in the wind tunnel look to use that benefit to eat into Red Bull’s advantage, knowing that Red Bull do not have such testing luxuries. It was in October of 2022 when Red Bull were hit with their fine and wind tunnel time reduction for that minor breach of the cost cap, at which point a chunk of the work on creating this dominant RB19 challenger had likely already been done. McLaren boss on how new regs allowed Red Bull to create such an advantageįormula 1 pundit would ‘put my money’ on Max Verstappen winning title with FerrariĮx-Ferrari figures on ‘huge pressure’ from Italian media and why it’s ingrained in team ‘psyche’ Red Bull perhaps yet to feel the impact of their penalty “I think it is such a big ask to see how anyone is going to compete with Red Bull.” recommends So, I can’t answer to whether it was unfair on Red Bull other than the fact that it didn’t have the desired effect because now look at what they’ve done. “I don’t understand the cost cap because I think it is virtually impossible to police. If you push a set of rules in front of a person, they are there to be circumvented. “Nowadays, if you give somebody a rule, they will get around it. “I think the cost cap is a farce,” Jordan told London Luxury Afloat as he officially opened the 2023 event. Jordan it seems has never been the biggest fan of the budget cap, and Red Bull’s form simply makes it redundant to his mind. Max Verstappen the leads the Drivers’ Championship with a buffer of 15 points over Perez, while Red Bull are already 58 points clear of Aston Martin in the Constructors’ standings. Three rounds into the campaign and Red Bull have accounted for all three poles and race wins on offer, with the Australian GP stopping their early enjoyment of one-two finishes, Sergio Perez having started from the back of the grid there. The latter part of that penalty was issued in a bid to disadvantage the team in the development race against rivals, but the early rounds of F1 2023 have suggested that teams have a huge amount of ground to make up on Red Bull who have firmly established themselves as the dominant outfit. Largely the financial aspect of the ruling has been respected, though Red Bull did unintentionally go beyond the limit in its first year of operation, with a 2022 ruling hitting the team with a $7 million fine, and docking them 10 percent of their allotted wind tunnel time. The move to put a limit on what a team could spend across a Formula 1 season came into effect as of the 2021 campaign, the idea being to significantly reduce the spending gap between the top and bottom of the grid, thus creating a more competitive group of teams. Former Jordan Grand Prix boss Eddie Jordan believes Red Bull have made the cost cap look pointless with their all-conquering start to F1 2023.
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