The FIA president is considering scrapping the cost cap, which governs F1, according to a report from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Introduced in 2021 to limit the amount of money each team can spend to a flat rate to try and close the grid up, the cost cap has been viewed as a key pillar behind F1 teams starting to become profitable businesses.<\/p>\n
However, AP has reported that during the Miami GP weekend, Mohammed Ben Sulayem wondered whether the cap – currently set at about $140 million – should be scrapped as it is causing too many “headaches.”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m looking at the cost cap and it\u2019s just giving the FIA a headache,” he is quoted as saying by the AP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So what\u2019s the point of it? I don\u2019t see the point. I really don\u2019t.”<\/p>\n
Ben Sulayem was speaking against the backdrop of a spat between McLaren and Red Bull over allegations of McLaren using water to cool its tyres, a trick Red Bull has long suspected.<\/p>\n
However, no evidence has been found to support the claims, with McLaren effectively telling Red Bull to ‘put up or shut up’ and lodge a protest instead of making accusations about the MCL39’s legality.<\/p>\n
Tyre supplier Pirelli has indicated that forcing water through the tyre valve without being detected would be next to impossible, with such an action a flagrant breach of the technical regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Sulayem supported McLaren CEO Zak Brown’s idea that if a team lodged a protest, the sum would be deducted from the cost cap pot, with it being returned only if the claims made were found to be true.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA president is considering scrapping the cost cap, which governs F1, according to a report from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-81711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114466302464013189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}