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It’s a benefit of working within the Red Bull group - free food and beverage has been provided.

“Catering within Red Bull has always been a benefit that has been provided by the group. When we submitted our submission, we were £3.7 million under the threshold. Catering costs, we believed, were excluded, and again, just to put it into context. “Catering costs - a lot was made of us giving our staff too much food this year. Horner explained that Red Bull thought supplying team members and visitors with food was excluded from the cost cap. In absolute terms, $7m is a lot of money but maybe in the bigger scheme of things for Red Bull, considering the investment they do on the power unit side and on the team, it’s not.Another area Red Bull overspent on was catering. “Any reduction in wind tunnel time is going to be detrimental. “I think as for any penalty, for us, it’s too little,” he said. Wolff believed the sanction was not stringent enough. Equally, the sporting penalty is not the restriction that may have been expected given other teams believe the advantage Red Bull may have gained could pay off across several years. The financial punishment not being applied as a sporting sanction to the budget cap may be seen as a relatively minor penalty for a team used to dealing with budgets in the hundreds of millions. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Last week Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton had warned that an insufficient punishment could render the budget cap meaningless. The decision is not likely to be well-received by other teams. They cited costs contributing to the overspend that included catering, social security, the new power unit wing of the team, apprenticeships, unused parts, bonuses, travel costs and non F1-activities. The FIA report stated: “There is no accusation or evidence that RBR has sought at any time to act in bad faith, dishonestly or in fraudulent manner.” It also noted that had Red Bull correctly applied a notional tax credit worth £1.4m they would have been in breach by only £432,652. Let me tell you now it is an enormous amount and represents anything between 0.25sec to 0.5sec, an enormous amount of lap time.” Some people have said that is an insignificant penalty. “$7m is an enormous amount of money but the more draconian punishment is the sporting penalty, which is the use of our wind tunnel. Horner insisted the aero reduction would have a major impact. Max Verstappen prepares for a practice run in a gold helmet after successfully defending his world title.

The financial penalty is a one-off payment, not a reduction in the team’s future budget cap and the aero restriction is a 10% reduction in time they can spend on wind tunnel or computational fluid dynamics work on their car. Did we see any on-track performance? No we did not.” “Following the speculation and sniping that has gone on in the paddock it is in everybody’s interest to close the book today,” he said.

Horner said the team could have chosen to appeal against the decision but opted to move on. “This is a sport of marginal gains, and everything else is just chatter. “Nine teams complied with the regulations and stayed below the cap,” he said. The Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, had no sympathy. “I am sure it is not enough, even if they burned our wind tunnel down it would not be enough,” he said. On the likely reaction from other teams to the penalties he was blunt, stating that they would still not be satisfied. There were other sporting penalties available but this was lobbied for hard by our competitors because it hit us the hardest.” “It gives an advantage to our competitors which is why they were pushing so hard for a draconian penalty.