Formula 1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds has agreed with comments made by new Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur, with the Frenchman having called for a crucial change to be made to the current budget cap system. The budget cap was introduced in 2021 to limit how much a team could spend on development and other factors, such as catering and personnel; however, Red Bull still managed to breach the limit in its first year of operation. Despite having breached the 2021 cap, it wasn't announced by the FIA until after the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix that the Austrians had made a ‘minor' breach of the 2021 limit, whilst their punishment was revealed a couple of...
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