Mercedes has once again tried to explain why, along with Red Bull Racing and Ferrari, it considers it necessary to raise the budget ceiling of $140 million. Everything has become much more expensive and the budgets that were made before the season may go to waste as a result.
Mercedes has once again tried to explain why, along with Red Bull Racing and Ferrari, it considers it necessary to raise the budget ceiling of $140 million. Everything has become much more expensive and the budgets that were made before the season can go to waste as a result.
Toto Wolff is again trying to advocate an increase in the budget ceiling 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 parts to the Grand Prix, but Red Bull has even stated that it cannot be completely ruled out that they will have to lose Grand Prixs because it is simply no longer affordable.
The teams in the middle of the grid, led by Alpine, Alfa Romeo and Williams, don't care about an increase in the budget ceiling. The teams feel that this is not a matter of force majeure and simply say that the competition should bring in fewer upgrades to keep costs under control.
Wolff emphasized in a conversation with Motorsport-Magazin.com that Mercedes is not trying to take advantage of a possible increase in the budget ceiling. The team boss shares these concerns of his colleagues: "That would be the worst thing for the sport.
However, in his opinion, there is no escaping an increase in the maximum money to be spent. Mercedes says it can easily demonstrate that power costs at the Brackley plant have increased from £2.5 million to £6.5 million.
Freight costs, according to Wolff, would have increased from £2 million to £6 million. Exactly for this extra £8 million, Mercedes would now have proposed raising the budget ceiling.