the eve of Singapore GP 2022, that will see the Circus descend on the city of Marina Bay starting tomorrow with qualifying, he was shaken by an authentic earthquake involving the red bull. The 17th round of the 2022 F1 World Championship will indeed be lived in a surreal atmosphere that promises sparks. The FIA would indeed have discovered that Red Bull spent more than it allowed in 2021: a sensational over-budget limit set at 145 million. An unexpected twist given the relevance, significance and weight of this alleged breach. One of the cornerstones of the regulation, which has the function of guaranteeing a kind of equity between the teams, limiting the economic strength of the richest teams, was literally circumvented.
It is above all to aggravate Red Bull’s position the final result of that 2021 World Cup won by the Milton Keynes team with Verstappen driving, which triumphed in the controversial and last GP of Abu Dhabi against Mercedes of Hamilton. Red Bull’s infringement refers to a season, the last, of the World Championship in which any technical development was almost impossible given that the cars were practically the same as in 2019. Now many, especially Mercedes, expect immediate measures hoping that not everything ends with an economic sanction. Toto Wolff would already be on the warpath.
And it wouldn’t be the only one, since even Ferrari, in the person of Mattia Binotto, he repeatedly pointed out that the Milton Keynes team, according to Maranello’s estimates, would have invested a lot of resources to obtain the improvements that had already emerged in the first races of the current season. “Now it’s up to us to develop, I expect a slowdown from Red Bull, they can’t keep up, at least not at the budget ceiling level – said last May, immediately ringing an alarm bell – We always monitor what’s new with each race, we know how much they’ve changed. When making an estimate, to date, they have spent much more than we have”.
At the moment, only an official communication from the FIA is awaited. A note, by the way, seems to be expected in these very hot days of the Singapore GP, but for now only rumors are surfacing about the infringement found. The fear, for the many teams interested in understanding whether the Federation will adopt a tough fist with Red Bull, is that this delay is due to a kind of compromise that the parties are trying to find now.
A dangerous condition for the FIA as it could set a very serious precedent. However, what happened would see the 2021 World Cup distorted and, at this point, also the 2022 World Cup. even the FIA runs the risk of leaving with broken bones for having witnessed such a serious infraction almost a year after Verstappen’s World Cup victory. One more element to make the weather in Singapore very hot this weekend that promises to be nothing short of fiery.
Source: Fan Page IT
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