Red Bull fined, points penalty avoided

formula 1 team Red Bull was fined $7 million and cut the car’s development time in the wind tunnel by 10%. to have 2021 budget cap exceededwas announced by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) this Friday.

Meanwhile, the FIA ​​did not impose a retroactive loss of points on Red Bull for a “minor” violation of this limit of 1.6%. The team therefore retains the title of world champion for drivers obtained by the dutch Max Verstappen last year. Red Bull is the first and only team in F1 to break the $145 million budget cap for the 2021 season.

The FIA Red Bull “cooperation” Red Bull believes it did not intend to act “in bad faith or in bad faith” to resolve the incident, which was revealed by Bodie on October 10. According to the FIA, another extenuating circumstance is that the world It was the “first year” of the financial rules, a “very complicated set of rules” that 10 elite teams in motorsport had to submit.

Red Bull now given 30 days to pay fineAn organization based in Milton Keynes (UK) is also responsible for paying the costs of the procedure.

At the sporting level, 2021 and 2022 world champions Verstappen’s team escaped the worst sanctions at the hands of the FIA: points stripping, deterioration and subsequent disqualification. Nevertheless, You have to count down 12 months of wind tunnel time. Essential for future single-seater development.

This time is also inversely proportional to the team’s ranking at the World Championships. Already he is enjoying the shortest wind tunnel time on the F1 grid as Red Bull have won his 2022 championship.