Over the Mexican Grand Prix weekend Formula 1 finally got confirmation of Red Bull’s penalty for breaking the budget cap in 2021: a $7million fine and 10% reduction of its aerodynamic testing allowance for the next 12 months.
Confirmation of Red Bull’s £1.8million overspend, reduced to just over £400,000 if a tax credit had been correctly applied, was quickly overtaken as a talking point by a debate over if Red Bull had got away lightly.
The integrity of F1’s budget cap has been at stake throughout this process and it’s not surprising to have heard completely different reactions to the punishment from Red Bull and its rivals.
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00:00 Red Bull’s penalty
00:47 What it’s really losing
03:55 Too lenient?
06:40 Why Red Bull took the deal
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So basically, Lewis won the 2021 championship but it was given to Max & Red Bull are protecting it by not going to court. VERY sportsman-like -_-
I think that it was to leiniant and a more appropriate punishment would be a good old fashion stoning 🤔
They lied and cheated and they should be striped of their world championships. It's pretty simple! Nothing else is sufficient…
Wouldnt be surprised if redbull breach the cost cap again this year
Nominal slap on the wrist, the developmental benefit gained last season in a first year of new rules exponentially benefitted Red Bull last season & seasons moving forward.
Reducing wind tunnel time and a fine is not much. Plus, they'll probably blag the wind tunnel time anyways.
In addition, they'd pay a fine every week if it didn't impact the position on track…. isn't that just artificially expanding the cost cap further?
I've no concern either way as its just rich folk paying lawyers to squeeze through loopholes …. so, in my opinion it's all bluster.
Red Bull broke the rule, they won a championship by the smallest of margins, they're a step ahead this year…. did the benefit help them win? Probably, as in F1 every penny is efficiently spent…. was the penalty enough to punish for the benefit gained? I guess only Red Bull will ever know that, and I'm sure they'd never tell & hide behind lawyers so the true benefit never materialises.
The noise about 'oh we're being picked on' is just deflection. They broke a rule, probably benefitted & got away with minimal punishment…. no need to moan about points of view…. if I were Red Bull, I'd just keep quiet and hope it dies down knowing I'd got off lightly.
Oh yawn the race as per usual being as biased as Ted Kravitz
This cost-cap thing is a nice though but sucks in practice: now this has become a competition between accountants and bookkeepers, and the team that is beste in creative bookkeeping will have an edge. Bwagh.
I think the Red Bull haters would like Max's first champion given back to Hamilton and kick them out so Mercedes can dominate next year, knowing Ferrari was such a disappointment they can never compete with them.
The verdict is simple, RedBull cheated. I dare Horner to sue me.
The only meaningful punishment would be to deduct that $7M fine on their 2023 budget, and then give all other teams extra money say 7M to spend towards their 2023 budget. This to me would be a balancing effect and a strong deterrent to prevent big teams from spending.
As it stands, the big three have about $150M surplus from 2021 & now 2022 each compared to 2019.
Horner is a liar. Of all the TP I detest him, and respect all others. It is fine to disagree but it doesn't have to be toxic. He started this vitriol and is whinning
What the punishment means is that RED BULLSHIT can continue to do whatever its wants. If they hadn't cheated Hamilton would be 2021 champion but the americunts who control F 1 have been crooks since day one. What will it cost them in 2023 that have the ARAB bend to their wills?
We can imagine they’ve also over spent in 2022.. given what they thought was legitimate in 2021 has only became apparent as illegal to them now. Explains why they’ve come from not competing to winning in the last 2 seasons.
In the end it seems like a fine solution, all sides are (pretending to be) annoyed, so feels like it has brought everything back into equality
Has any team tried dimples on the flat surfaces for better aero? Turbulent flow has much less drag than laminar flow.
Red Bull are criminals – they spend too much money and paid for an illegal decision in the last race 2021- and that is just what we know
Christian "Draconian" Horner.
Wow incredible fine for a billionaire team … draconian JAJAJAJAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
The 7 million fine should of come out of their budget cap.
I don’t get it? Can’t they just run computer sims on car performance “inside the wind tunnel”
Typical narcissist; never does anything wrong and behaves churlish when reprimanded for breaching rules, "get on my level! How dare they punish meee! It's so draconian."
Only when the full details of the Ferarri engine investigation and subsequent rule changes are released should they open their mouths.
I'm not gona lie, i used to watch this channel religiously. but yall continue to just push the british agenda and i hate it
BOP; just admit it FIA!
This penalty is a joke
Does the £7mill come out of RB's 2023 cap? It should
Why don't the FIA just decide before the year starts who they want to win, or who give them some nice free cars to win and then let them win. The rest can stay at home and save some money.
It seems to me like it needs to be made clearer to the teams what does against the cap and what doesn’t because this really shouldn’t be happening
This is a Mercedes fan team called "the race". This guy's are Mercedes biased.
Look, RedBull sells cheaply made carbonated caffeinated sugary water for big money. Their reputation is as toxic as the drink they sell to begin with.
So much nit picking, shameful and 😴
Of all the team principles, the one that is the absolute authority on what wind tunnel test time will equate to in real world track gains or losses is Bonito. That's a direction of the sport he knows more about than any other team principle.
yawn …
Should have title revoked
nothing hiring an expert aircraft design engineer who specializes in take off/landings for military fighter aircraft can't mitigate and actually improve.
What a joke , will they next demand that everyone be given a race win so they won’t have their feelings hurt
a joke of a system…