Raising F1 budget cap would ‘tilt playing field’ claims Alpine team chief

The efforts of Formula One’s biggest teams to raise the sport’s budget cap are an attempt to claw back an unfair advantage and indicative of poor planning, according to the Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer.
With the cap intended to level the playing field, Szafnauer insists teams are using claims of inflationary pressure as a smokescreen to spend more looking for performance and said that he and others will attempt to prevent any regulation change.
F1 introduced a budget cap for the first time in 2021. It was set at $145 million (€133.8 million) and this year dropped to $140 million (€129.2 million). It is due to further decrease to €135 million (€124.57 million) next year. The measure was seen as vital to control e …

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