Red Bull principal Christian Horner believes bringing back customer cars is the best way of reducing costs for smaller teams. The teams failed to reach an agreement when they met on Thursday over a new limit for the budget cap. The idea of a cap of $145m, moving to $130m after a year, was presented, while Ferrari principal Mattia Binotto suggested a two-tier budget cap for supplier and customer teams in the past, a proposal Horner agrees with. McLaren have been pushing for a cap as low as $100m per season. Ultimately Horner believes for a team like Red Bull cutting costs so significantly wouldn't be possible, so he suggested a return for customer cars as a way of allowing the smaller teams...
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