Red Bull accepted the FIA’s compromise proposal, the penalty will come

After the FIA ​​announced that RBR had “limitedly” exceeded the $145 million spending limit in 2021, which is believed to be in the region of $1.8 million, bid the former presented the Accepted Breach compromise agreement to Milton Keynes’ team.

Red Bull Racing would either accept this compromise and acknowledge his misconduct and the ensuing penalty, or reject it at the risk of a more detailed FIA scrutiny of its finances and a possible harsher penalty.

The Milton Keynes team eventually opted for this compromise, as did Aston Martin F1 for a lesser offence, and the FIA ​​will announce both the details of the offenses for the two teams, as well as the penalties, in the next few hours will be imposed for them.

We remind you that the other teams have overwhelmingly asked for the exemplary punishment of Red Bull Racing, but it is considered unlikely that there will be a point deduction from Max Verstappen, which could deprive him of the championship, in which he won in 2021.

According to current knowledge, Red Bull Racing will be punished with both a racing penalty and a fine. The first, which also affects competitiveness, involves limiting the particularly critical time that will be available to use the wind tunnel in the 2023 car development process.

This will be a major setback for the Milton Keynes team, because as world champions this year, they will have the least time in the wind tunnel of all other teams in 2023 anyway.

For years the FIA ​​has instituted staggered use of the wind tunnel because it is extremely expensive to operate: the winning team has the least available wind tunnel time, and the last team in the championship has the most.

Red Bull’s wrongdoing, the team says, includes overspending on food for workers at the Milton Keynes factory, compensation for workers’ emergency furlough and managing spare parts for the 2021 car. Many more believe it does too a problem with the group’s tax records.

Christian Horner reiterated that the team gained absolutely no racing advantage from the cost overrun, hinting that billing all the spare parts for the 2021 RB16B caused the problem, saying it was “almost impossible” to get all the financial issues sorted out properly in the first case to regulate year of introduction of the spending cap for Formula 1 teams.

As for Aston Martin F1, the Silverstone team is said to have breached the terms of the financial filing procedure, with the key issue being an irregularity related to UK tax law. In the case of Aston Martin, the penalty imposed is expected to be a fine only.