The shock idea of the president of the FIA

Established in Formula 1 during the 2021 season, the budgetary ceiling aims to balance the debates between the different teams on the board. The principle of this concept is to limit the expenses of the stables, in a number of key areas related to sports competition. The limit was set at $ 140.4 million for 2025, but it does not include all the expenses planned by a stable for a season. For example, the salaries of the pilots or the three best paid people working on the management of the team are not taken into account. We can observe since its inauguration that most of the stables on the set have stopped losing money from year to year, even if the recent success of sport is there foreign mas. However, this restriction can also cause problems. Indeed a few months after the end of the 2021 season (first season when she entered into force Let us recall), after the incredible struggle that Mercedes and Red Bull had offered us, we had discovered that the Austrian team had spent more than it had the right to do. Even if sanctions had been pronounced, too much time had already passed and some believe that Red Bull had widened an advantage too substantial to be caught despite the conviction.

“What is the interest?”

The president of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem went to the niche recently on this subject following a comment by Zak Brown, executive director of McLaren. The boss of the Woking stable proposed that the teams accusing others of rules of the rules should file formal complaints with a financial deposit. In the event of false accusations, English proposed to add the deposit in the budgetary ceiling of the accusing training. The Emirati manager approved this idea but to a detail: the addition of the deposit in the budgetary limit. The former rally driver considers that this rule gives “a headache” to the FIA in particular because of the difficulty of management of the latter by the body. Questioned by the Associated Press media, he said: “I look at the cost ceiling, and he gives headache to the FIA. So what is the point? I don’t see the interest. I really don’t see.” This announcement caused a lively debate within the sports authorities and it is certainly not the last time that we will hear about it.