Red Bull has acceptednot without complaining, the FIA sanction for breaching the spending ceiling for the 2021 season. with McLaren Y ferrari Doubting its effectiveness, the Austrians, through Christian Horner, have revealed what happened and for what reasons and reasons they exceeded the budget.
And it is, to say the least, curious. Because the four areas that the boss of the energy drink men mentions have nothing to do with the development of the car.
The four reasons for overspending
- First appears the catering, something they thought was excluded from the spending ceiling. “It’s always been a benefit provided by the group. A benefit of working within Red Bull. Free food and drink has always been provided,” says Horner. And he jokes: “This year we have given too much to eat our staff.
- then talk about sick leave: “We considered that we could exclude that cost. It does not play any role in the team’s performance. The regulations can be interpreted in two ways.” And watch what he says: “If you have died, something that fortunately did not happen, the cost would have been excludable. But that is computed in the exercise,” says Horner
- In addition, the taxes. Parts of his results were not collected there and he gave a balance that the FIA took into account.
- To end, the staff who left the company. “There was a person with a temporary contract who received an offer from another team, Hollywood style. neither his heart nor his head they were at Red Bull, so we transferred him to another site and then he left the company. The time he didn’t spend in F1 was included… and it was something we didn’t count on.”
