The Red Bull cost cap scandal has been the topic on everyone’s lips for a number of weeks now, with the new constructors’ championship winners recently being punished for exceeding the 2021 budget cap of $145m. While the FIA only announced their findings about Red Bull’s wrong doing recently, the rumours around the breach have
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Chatter has run rife in the paddock in recent weeks surrounding Red Bull’s ‘cashgate’ scandal, with the team having been rumoured to have breached last year’s budget cap since before the Singapore Grand Prix. The team have now been fined $7m and given a 10% reduction in wind tunnel time for next year and while
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The FIA have not earned themselves a glowing reputation from fans and drivers in recent times, with every race week seeming to spark a new debate about a controversial decision or mistake from the governing body. Most recently it was Fernando Alonso’s penalty in Austin, with the Spaniard being slapped with a 30-second time penalty
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Lewis Hamilton may have somehow qualified in the optimum position for Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, after a mistake at the start of Q3 saw the seven-time World Champion end up in third. The Mercedes driver enjoyed his and the team’s best Saturday by a mile, after astonishingly topping Q1 and Q2, before Q3 slipped away
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With Red Bull being found guilty of a minor breach of the 2021 budget cap, the team have been fined $7m and given a 10% reduction in aerodynamic testing time for next year. The reduction in testing time especially will hurt Red Bull, with the championship winners already set to receive less time than their
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Red Bull have been found guilty of breaching the 2021 budget cap of $145m and after weeks of rumours and negotiation with the FIA, the team have been hit with a $7m fine and a 10% reduction in aerodynamic testing time for next year. Christian Horner has slated the FIA’s decision, claiming that the punishment
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The FIA have thrown themselves into further disarray at the Mexican Grand Prix, after it was revealed that race director Niels Wittich gave Haas incorrect information at last weekend’s United States Grand Prix. Haas decided to protest to the FIA 54 minutes after the race at the Circuit of the Americas concluded that they believed
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Red Bull’s 2021 budget cap breach appears to have very much annoyed Sky Sports F1 journalist Ted Kravitz, who called Lewis Hamilton an eight-time World Champion during a recent episode of ‘The Notebook’. Kravitz is by far one of the most experienced journalists in the F1 paddock; however, it’s safe to say that he has
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The FIA confirmed on Friday that Red Bull will be fined $7m and have their aerodynamic testing time cut by 10% for 2023 as punishment for breaching the 2021 budget cap. The energy drink-owned team were adjudged to have overspend the $145m budget cap by around $2m, with the team suggesting that this was spent
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Times are certainly tough for the FIA currently, with the governing body having to embarrassingly revert a penalty they awarded to Fernando Alonso at the United States Grand Prix last weekend, after being seemingly corrected by the Oxford Dictionary. Alonso, who crossed the line in seventh at the Circuit of the Americas last weekend, was awarded a
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