Ferrari boss questions fairness of Red Bull's F1 budget cap enforcement
Apr.11 - Frederic Vasseur has hit out at the "very mild" penalty imposed for Red Bull's budget cap breach.
The Ferrari boss said the dominant title-winning and title-leading team losing 10 percent of its wind tunnel time on top of a $7 million fine "was not a penalty".
"I don't want to say they didn't do a good job, because I honestly think they did a very good job on the car," the Frenchman said. "And I'm not trying to find an excuse at all.
"It's not that. But if you ask me if the penalty was too light, I say yes. I think it was not a penalty. It was very low.
Ferderic Vasseur (Ferrari F1 team principal)
"If you consider that, basically, we will improve a little less than a second during the season in terms of aerodynamics, and you get the penalty of 10 percent of this, it is a tenth," the new Ferrari team principal said.
"And since it's not a linear progression, it's probably even less than that, and you can spend this money elsewhere. For me the penalty was marginal," he insisted.
"And if you consider that you have an advantage at the start of the season because you spent more the year before - I don't want to say that they didn't do a good job, because I honestly think they did a very good job on the car."
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The penalty is relatively marginal, considering what they've achieved post-breach, although the impact will be greater on this season's later development phase & even greater on next season's start.
By late season the title will be wrapped up so no punishment there. Next season, well to far away to make predictions including how RB 2022 budget may have been blown.
Pour cry baby. I did not know that he was like this...Frederic Vasseur, se pourrait-il que ce soit simplement de la JALOUSIE, fustré de ton incompétance ?
What a twit
He should keep his gob shut and concentrate on Ferrari's inadequacies instead of trying to grab shite headlines