Fernando Alonso has remembered losing two title battles to Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and insisted that financial disputes have “always been a part of F1”.
After much speculation and off-track feuding, there is finally some clarity following the FIA’s long-awaited F1 cost cap review - but what will happen next?
McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes it’s “critically important” that F1 policies its cost cap with similar strictness to technical rule breaks ahead of the FIA’s certificate of compliance announcement on Monday.
The FIA did not reveal results of its audit into F1 teams’ finances for the 2021 world championship on Wednesday, as they initially planned, and have postponed their ruling to Monday October 10.
Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner is unhappy with the FIA’s technical directive for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, describing it as potentially “very dangerous”.
Williams were the first F1 team to be fined as a consequence of the sport’s new cost control measures that were introduced last season. How do they work and why were Williams fined?
McLaren chief Andreas Seidl says he’s support Formula 1 “trying new things” with the 2020 season, including experiments with race schedules and formats, but has urged the sport to focus on addressing areas which need the most attention.
While suspicion has grown within the Formula 1 paddock over bending the rules on copying and constructing major car components, Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams believes all F1 squads are obeying the regulations but its recent slump in results isn’t down to not following the trend.<
While the 2020 Formula 1 world championship gets underway this weekend in Australia, action has already begun to prepare for the sport’s new Cost Cap system which officially comes into place in 2021.