If Red Bull receives a heavy penalty, the Constructors’ Championship leaders cannot say they were not warned.
In 2019, as he set out plans to implement the cost cap in time for 2022, F1 chief technical officer and chief executive Ross Brawn warned teams they would face losing championship dominance if they had been found to have broken the rules. the regulations
“Financial regulations are the dramatic change in F1,” Brawn said in the official reveal at an FIA press conference in Austin, Texas.
“We have tried this in the past and we have not been successful. I think the most important thing about the financial regulations now is that they are part of the FIA regulations. So the penalties for breaching the financial regulations will be sporting penalties of some type, depending on the severity of the breach.
“Whereas before we had the resource constraint, which was a gentlemen’s pact between teams, I’m afraid there aren’t many gentlemen in the paddock, and that was a failure.
“But this has teeth. If you fraudulently breach financial regulations, you lose your championship. So there are serious consequences if teams breach those regulations.”