Formula 1‘s top teams should spend less on development if inflationary pressures put them at risk of busting a budget cap, according to Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer. Red Bull's Christian Horner warned at the Spanish Grand Prix that a majority of the 10 teams would struggle to comply with financial restrictions imposed this season and an increase was needed. Szafnauer said Renault-owned Alpine's predicted spending remained inside the annual cap and saw no reason to go beyond the current $140 million. 'We've set our budgets early, we kind of anticipated a little bit of the inflation. Inflation didn't just creep up on us,' said the American, whose team are in sixth place after six races....
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