In the wake of huge dam🐓age bills across the past two races, Red Bull team principalಌ Christian Horner has led the calls for a rethink over F1’s cost cap regulations.

Red Bull claimed Max Verstappen’s massive 51G sh꧑unt at Silverstone following contact with title rival Lewis Hamilton resulted in repairs costing $1.8 million.

Both Red Bull cars sustained extensive damage when Verstappen and Sergio Perez were caught up in the first corner carnage triggered by Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in Hungary, with Horner revealing fears that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Perez’s engine was a write off for the rest of the season.

“It’s hugely frustratinﷺg for Honda as it’s not due to reliability, it’s because of accidents that we haven't caused,” Horner said. “So they're feeling the brunt of this as well as we are on the chassis side.

“It’s not to be underestimated on the cost cap side. It’s something that does need to be l🍎ooked at it because in a cost cap environment, it’s brutal, the incidents we have had during the last couple of weeks.

“Obviously you’ve got to look aꦕt what’s within the cap. It’s spare parts; the engines as well are particularly concerning. I think we need to revisit this with the FIA as it’s something that can affect all teams, not just Red Bull.”

Ferrari also lost a car in the melee, with Charles Leclerc eliminated on the spot following a hit from Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll. Both Bottas and Stroll have received five-place grid penalties for the Belgian Grand Prix la🃏ter this month for causing the collisions.

Following an inspection after the race, the Italian outfit revealed this week that Leclerc’s engine has been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“irreparably damaged”, meaning the Monegasque is “high🌊ly likely” to face a grid penalty later in the season for surpassing permitted power unit components.

Ferrari supportedꦗ Red Bull’ꦛs stance, with team principal Mattia Binotto proposing the idea that teams should have to foot the repair bill of other cars if their driver is found guilty of causing the accident.

“I think there is value for discus𒆙sions in the near⛄ future with the other team principals, FIA and F1,” Binotto said.

“Obviously if you're not guilty, having such damage in the budget ♈cap is something which is even more of a consequence now. Should we add exemptions? I'm not sure that’s the solution. I think it may be very difficult to be policed.

“Bඣut I think that what we may consider is that if a driver is faulty, the team of the driver should pay at least to the other teams for the damages and repairs. That will make the drivers more responsible.”

McLaren endured a miserable Hungarian GP and came away from Budapest with zero points after Lando Norris was eliminated after being rear-ended by Bottas. Daniel Ricciardo also 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:suffered race-ruining damage in the Turn 1 chaos as he limped homღe🐭 to 11th.

Asked iﷺf he agreed with Red Bull that the situation needs to be ꦑre-evaluated, McLaren team boss Seidl replied: “No, not at all.

“I definitely will not go in the direction that Christian is going, mentioning every second sentence thꦕe cost cap and how much it will be hurt by it by an accident on track.

“In the end, it’s part of the game we’re in - it’s dowꦬn to us toꦛ manage the budget in the right way.

“It will be a challenge to make sure now we have again enough parts of 🧜the new specification available for Spa but on the other hand, we have a great team back home in production and the engineering side, so I am confident we can recover from what happened.

“I don’t see that it affects anything of our plans, to be honest. It is quite simple and straightforward. At the beginning of the season, based on the experience of previous years, you 𝔍simply have to account for certain💜 crash damage per year.

“That’s what you have to figure in and that’s what ༒we have in the budget and that’s the challenge that we are in. It’s t💞he same for everyone.”

And what of the teams at the back of the grid?

After Mick Schumacher crashed in FP3 and ruled himself out of qualifying at the Hungaroring, Haas team principal Guenther Steiner admitted he was fed up with crashes becoming 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“too frequent and too heavy” for his side.

Schumacher also suffe🐈red big qualifying shunts in Monaco and France, with the former alone costing Haas up to $500,000.

Despitಌe this, Steiner insisted ﷺhe has no issue with the current regulations.

“I think w🌠e need to live with i❀t, we need to budget for it,” he explained. “We need to be flexible enough, that’s just good management.

“Because then all of a sudden we have less crashes, do we bring the budget cap down again? I think it’s part of racing and will be part of how much ris🥂k you take and what you do.

“I think it’s part of racing, cra✨shes. You cannot adjust the budget or the regulation, going off how many crashes you’ve got. For me, no change is needed on this one.”