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Budget cap alert: Fia investigates teams' non-F1 activities. Ferrari included (www.gazzetta.it)

submitted 1 year ago by jalda@sopuli.xyz to c/formula1@lemmy.ml

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The FIA has issued a directive to control the costs related to other sport equipments of the teams, such as boat designs, bikes or road vehicles, in order to avoid that the personnel employed in such areas is used to make further research useful for the F1 team avoiding the budget cap. Request of clarification issued to Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull and Aston Martin.

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[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"No FIA this Aero Engineer is needed to improve our cans!" - Red Bull, probably

[–] meteotsunami@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Red Bull literally had the Red Bull Air Racing Championship until 2019. Now I wonder if that was a secret F1 research endeavor.

[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

There was no budget cap, there were no need to hide it

[–] frankdew@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Red Bull gives you front wings

[–] trex@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be pretty funny if all the other big teams had breaches as well... Hypocrits.