The Japanese GP goes to the archives as it had been thought: victory for Max Verstappen and world championship party organized with great fanfare by Honda on the home track, Suzuka. The script was respected as was the celebration.
Now that the best driver of the season has been paid tribute, the hour of truth can come: tomorrow the FIA will finally have to formalize which teams have earned the certificate of compliance with the budget cap for the 2021 season and which ones, possibly, they did not respect the spending constraints.
The International Federation is postponing responses from one day to the next, after the case exploded in Singapore thanks to the advances of some press media that indicated Red Bull and Aston Martin outside the framework of the financial regulation.
The Red Bull leaders (Newey, Marko and Horner) celebrate Max Verstappen’s second world championship with Perez
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Christian Horner is calm: the Red Bull team principal is confident that there will be no penalties for Milton Keynes’s team because there have been no spending overruns.
Mattia Binotto, who remained in Maranello to follow the technicians who are working at Ferrari next year, excludes having skipped the Japanese trip to make contact with the Maranello lawyers, perhaps after having heard Toto Wolff, head of Mercedes, since the manager is also Austrian was not seen in Suzuka.
In the meeting with the media, the Cavallino team principal highlighted some cornerstones on the issue, outlining what could be a scenario in view of tomorrow …
“We are still in a hypothetical world because we are awaiting the judgment of tomorrow. However, whatever the team and the situation to be analyzed, I believe that going to the following year to resume the result of a world championship after there have been battles on the track and then some ceremonials and celebrations I find it difficult. On the contrary, I don’t think it’s an honestly viable thing ”.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB18, battles Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75, at the first start
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If the 2021 title is not touched, what can be the right tools?
“I think that if a team, whatever it is, has had an advantage by spending more money than others, it can have a performance advantage that remains in subsequent seasons, and it is evident that it does not vanish in a single race.”
“This leads us to say that the best penalty in addition to the economic one, which must be there, will also lead to a slowdown in the development of the car because otherwise the advantage will remain in the following years and we will continue to compete without equal halves. In my opinion, there must be a penalty that can sanction the capacity for development ”.
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