Has F1 already grown tired of spending constraints?
OPINION: The budget cap was introduced only last year but with rampant inflation squeezing further their ability to spend some teams are less than happy, says STUART CODLING
Much guff has been spouted over the matter of F1’s budget cap but now, perhaps, the subject has finally crossed the Rubicon (some might even say it has long since jumped the shark, if such a ghastly collision of cultural-aquatic metaphors were permissible in these pages). Even McLaren, the team which squawked longest and loudest for the cap to be set as low as possible, has now fallen in line with rivals and publicly capitulated to the inevitability of breaking it.
“We are at a position where we can’t make the cap anymore,” team principal Andreas Seidl told reporters at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
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