Mercedes has once again tried to explain why they , like Red Bull Racing and Ferrari, consider it necessary to raise the $140 million budget ceiling. Everything has become a lot more expensive and the budgets that were made prior to the season can go in the trash as a result. Toto Wolff is again trying to make a case for an increase in the maximum budget in 2022. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have joined forces, claiming that rising energy costs and inflation have made everything disproportionately more expensive. The teams are already taking fewer spares to Grands Prix, but Red Bull even stated that it cannot be completely ruled out that they will have to miss Grands Prix because it is...
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