It was in 2021 when the budget limit for Formula 1 teams. Since then all of them have had to make numbers and modifications to avoid breaking the new FIA rules. Despite this, some have been under suspicion and have even been sanctioned, as has been the case with Red Bull.
Alpine He has denounced the ‘traps’ that some teams do to not comply with these rules. otmar szafnauerin statements to the website ‘GP Fans’, has spoken of the “gaps” in the rules.
“What some bigger teams are doing now is looking to exploit or have a better understanding where there are gaps or organizational changes that you can make to get more people under that budget limit,” said the head of the French team.
He touches on how teams are laying off workers to rehire them: “They think ‘I got rid of 100 people, but now I want to rehire them because, under the budget cap, I was able to find places for them where they don’t count as a whole person or make some marketing or whatever.'”
“We haven’t reached that point yet, but I think some have and the advantage of being correct at the beginning dissipates“, has indicated Otmar.
In this way, the head of Alpine denounces that some aspects are not clear in the regulations. And those aspects are being used by some teams, according to Szafnauer, to use more money than the budget cap allows.
