So, they’ve raised the budget cap about 3%. But my question is whether FIA discloses to the public how much each team has spent so far towards that budget cap. It’d be interesting to know, though I imagine they keep that confidential and would only publicly report when a team has exceeded the cap.
As per rules, the Cost Cap Administration needs to keep the following confidential. "Confidential Information" means all confidential information relating to a member of an F1 Team’s Legal Group Structure (whether written, oral or in any other format), including any information that would be regarded as confidential by a reasonable business person relating to the business, affairs, customers, clients, suppliers, plans, operations, processes, know-how, financial data, commercially sensitive information, designs, trade secrets or software of the F1 Team and/or of any member of the F1 Team’s Legal Group Structure.
My guess is that Mercedes is closest to the cap, followed by Red Bull, and then Ferrari. Mercedes had to spend a lot of resources just to make their car competitive (which is only now beginning to happen), and seems to have a lot of swing-and-a-miss on the way. Red Bull always seems to burn through money.
Both crashes yesterday didn't help either by both drivers with the budget cap.....Lewis's wad more costlier than Russells.
It is amazing how those mechanics fix these things so quickly and correctly. I’d really like to see a video of one of these overnight repairs.
You should want to see a WHOLE PU change in under 2 hours from FP3 going into qualifying. Both teams of said team work around each other to get the car ready for qualifying.....talk about fast--->it takes teamwork to make the dream work.
Ferrari should have the least overheads: energy is cheaper and wages lower in Italy than in UK. But Alfa-Sauber in Switzerland should suffer from the highest costs in Europe. I don't know if the FIA takes that in consideration when it set the budget cap.
