F1 2023


Thanks for the response. What happened to Mercedes for them not to be as dominant?

Rule changes on aerodynamics primarily, but right after Red Bull had upped their game (which many will point out included breaching the development cap). They opted to take a very different route to design, uniquely they went with an approach that caused more porpoising than any other team and then stuck with it doggedly for half a season trying to fix it before eventually ditching it. They've been playing catchup every since. It's such small margins.
 
I am currently on board with Lewis, I mean not literally but just pics, nice coz there is no commentary.

No other cars around him either. It’s like he is the only car on track.
He and Leclerc have been non-entities in this race despite being 3 and 4, absolutely nowt going on for either of them.
 
Red Bull overspent by around £2m against an £8m pa R&D budget, so no one else could compete against that.

"The FIA announced Red Bull had breached last year's $145 million cost cap in early October before issuing a penalty later in the same month. Red Bull, which overspent by 1.6 percent, was fined $7 million and will have a 10 percent reduction in its aerodynamic testing allowance for 12 months."

The FIA’s ruling detailed a number of areas where Red Bull had wrongly excluded costs, which led to an overspend of £1.8m.

One of these was catering, which emerged as one of the areas that had been interpreted differently when news first broke out that Red Bull may have breached the budget cap.

Speaking on Friday in Mexico, Red Bull team boss Horner acknowledged that “a lot has been made” about the catering allowance, joking that it had been suggested “we gave our staff too much food this year.”

He went on to explain that Red Bull thought catering costs were excluded from the budget cap as it is a company-wide benefit and not something solely related to the F1 team.

“Catering within Red Bull has always been a benefit that’s been provided by the group, a benefit of working within the Red Bull group that free food and beverage has always been provided,” said Horner.

“Therefore, as something as a Red Bull policy, we viewed it as something of an excluded cost. Aggressive, but we felt acceptable.

“The FIA took a different viewpoint on that, and said that food was not excludable. Fair enough. But what was included was the entire catering bill of our entire company, so £1.4m worth of food, drink, coffees.

“Red Bull Powertrains had nothing to do with Red Bull Racing until this year, and their costs are included. So a difference of opinion on how that was applied.”




But sure your's sounds better!
 
"The FIA announced Red Bull had breached last year's $145 million cost cap in early October before issuing a penalty later in the same month. Red Bull, which overspent by 1.6 percent, was fined $7 million and will have a 10 percent reduction in its aerodynamic testing allowance for 12 months."

The FIA’s ruling detailed a number of areas where Red Bull had wrongly excluded costs, which led to an overspend of £1.8m.

One of these was catering, which emerged as one of the areas that had been interpreted differently when news first broke out that Red Bull may have breached the budget cap.

Speaking on Friday in Mexico, Red Bull team boss Horner acknowledged that “a lot has been made” about the catering allowance, joking that it had been suggested “we gave our staff too much food this year.”

He went on to explain that Red Bull thought catering costs were excluded from the budget cap as it is a company-wide benefit and not something solely related to the F1 team.

“Catering within Red Bull has always been a benefit that’s been provided by the group, a benefit of working within the Red Bull group that free food and beverage has always been provided,” said Horner.

“Therefore, as something as a Red Bull policy, we viewed it as something of an excluded cost. Aggressive, but we felt acceptable.

“The FIA took a different viewpoint on that, and said that food was not excludable. Fair enough. But what was included was the entire catering bill of our entire company, so £1.4m worth of food, drink, coffees.

“Red Bull Powertrains had nothing to do with Red Bull Racing until this year, and their costs are included. So a difference of opinion on how that was applied.”




But sure your's sounds better!
Right so overspent by £1.8m, which I rounded to £2m. If they kept within the cost cap, they would have had to spend £1.8m less, probably on development as everything else will have already been minimised. That’s how overspending works mate
He’s a knacker like. Every race he explains how drs and under/overcut works. Every race without fail. Me sat nav repeats itself less.
And gets it wrong every race without fail too
 
Right so overspent by £1.8m, which I rounded to £2m. If they kept within the cost cap, they would have had to spend £1.8m less, probably on development as everything else will have already been minimised. That’s how overspending works mate

And gets it wrong every race without fail too

One of their suppliers has really missed a marketing trick - "Nescafe - the coffee that Nukes your opposition" or "Pukka Pies - putting you on top of the podium"
 

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