Jacques Villeneuve thinks it's unfair that teams complain about the budget ceiling. The 1997 world champion doesn't understand why teams are going backwards when everyone agreed to the rules.
Jacques Villeneuve thinks it's unfair that teams complain about the budget ceiling. The 1997 world champion doesn't understand why teams are going backwards when everyone has agreed to the rules.
Speaking to Formule1.nl, Villeneuve says that it is not logical to change the rules about the budget ceiling. Each team agreed to the limit in advance and, as he rightly says, more expensive flights are a problem for each team. The Canadian thinks that teams that go to the limit simply need to develop less.
The problems with the budget ceiling are mainly from bigger teams like Mercedes, Red Bull Racing, Ferrari and McLaren. Smaller teams such as Williams and Haas F1 will not reach the $140 million limit. Villeneuve praises Alpine, as it is a larger team that does not complain and stays well within the limit.
Christian Horner even said that some teams will have to lose races if the limit is not raised. Due to high inflation in 2022, Horner, Toto Wolff and Mattia Binotto are lobbying for an increase in the spending limit.