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Sky Sports F1’s Ted Kravitz says Red Bull’s 2021 cost cap breach penalty “is going to bite Red Bull, just not yet and certainly not before they win this year’s World Championship”.
Last year, after it was revealed that Red Bull had breached the 2021 budget cap, the team was handed a $7m fine and a 10 percent reduction in aero testing time.
Despite this, the Austrian team has so far completely dominated the 2022 season. Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz dives into when the penalty could start to affect them.
“It’s clear to me now why the upper surfaces, the sidepods and all the rest of it of the RB19 look more or less the same as the RB18,” Kravitz said.
“It’s that Adrian Newey, Pierre Wache and all of the people at Red Bull spent all their time over the winter on that floor.
“And if you’re thinking about ‘Hang on, what about cost cap aerodynamic testing restrictions, a penalty when is that going to come in?’
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“Well, Pierre Wache, the technical director, had an answer for me for that on Thursday, when he said the end of the season that cut in aerodynamic testing is going to have an effect, and crucially it’s going to have effect on next year’s RB20 as well.
“I thought that was really, really interesting. So if you’re thinking that ‘Hang on I thought with the accepted breach of agreement of last year’s cost cap how come they’ve got the best car?’
“It is going to bite Red Bull, just not yet and certainly not before they win this year’s World Championship, which they deserve to because they’ve got a great car and Max Verstappen is driving brilliantly etcetera, etcetera, etcetera,” the Briton concluded.
