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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Rumour is that if it’s a small overage, <5%, that the penalty will basically be nothing.
Otherwise, fines, cap penalty, constructor points could all be an option. Not that RB cares. Not losing WDC from last year and no penalty will matter for this year. A cap penalty could cause them to go over this year and carry forward penalties to next year but I doubt they care about that either.
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Just to follow up on this because I’ve been reading up on this a bunch.
There are literally no specific consequences written into the budget cap rules. It mentions certain types of penalties that may be levied, like fines or WCC points, but doesn’t say when they’ll administer them.
And it’s been 10 months since the season ended and 6 months since teams submitted their receipts. What kind of a system is ever gonna work when the accounting isn’t done for a full season afterwards?
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Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies tells Sky Italia: “It’s now no secret that two teams broke the 2021 budget cap regulations, one by a significant amount, the other less so.
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Rumour is that AM’s overage is small. That would point to RB being the team over by “millions”. But who knows. So much noise and gossip at the moment.
Remember when Ferrari got caught cheating and the entire thing was made confidential by the FIA and they got literally no penalty at all? Sure they had to stop cheating and then had their worst season in 25 years but that wasn’t punitive, it was just the reality of their suck age without cheating.