168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Red Bull ar🦩e guilty of a ⛄“minor” overspend of the 2021 $𒅌145m budget, es🧸timated at $1-2m. But what exactly could they afford with that extra money?

• Red Bull o🍸n𝔍 cost cap: “The past shows extreme violations were punished mildly”

‘A new floor or adapted wing’ - $300,000

Ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton claimed that extra spending from Mercedes c🐈ould have changed the outcome of t🐠he 2021 title race.

Mercedes’ last major upgrade arrived at the British Grand Prix in July, while Red Bull continued to develop up until the controversial title finale at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

“If we had, if we spent $300,000 on a new floor or an adapted wing it would have changed the outcome of the championsh🌼ip, naturally, because we would have been in better competition in the next race you had it on,” Hamilton told Sky.

A new chassis - around $1m 

F1 chassis are notoriou♎sly expensive, even more so when they have to replace them. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mick Schumacher has crashed heavily on three occasions♋ ꦛduring F1 2022.

• How the🅺 F1 cost cap will change for💎 2023 and beyond

The German shunted his Haas in Saudi Arabia, Monaco and more recently, in Jap🍨an.

For a team like Haas, who are understood to be well under the cost cap, a꧃ new chassis isn’t a cheap investment.

Steiner said after Schumacher’s crash in Je𓄧ddah: “Between gearbox, the whole bodywork is gone, radiator ducts are gone, so it’s between half a million and a million I would say.”

Crash damage - more than $1.8m

Crash damage can be a ꦗbig explanation to why a team wouꦡld potentially breach the cost cap, even if the damage is out of their control.

Let’s take 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen as an example.

He crashed hไeavily late on in Baku after his tyres failed, through no fault of his own.

Verstappen was crashed out of the F1 Br♚it𝔍ish Grand Prix by Hamilton, costing Red Bull around $1.8m.

The Dutchman (and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez) sustained significant damage in Hungary, caused by Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas.

Both incidents ♉were caused by Mercedes drivers,ꦬ but Red Bull would have been forced to cover the costs.

Verstappen collided with Hamilton again at Mon♋za, although on this occasion, it was arguably his own faulℱt.

While teams have to factor this into their yearly budgets, some crashes are completely avoidable, and 🔜in Verstappen’s case, were mostly not his fault.

Lightweight chassis - around $2m

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff revealed that introducing a new lightweight chassis would have put the team $2m above the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 cost cap.

Red Bull were expected to introduce their own lightweight chassis during the latter part o🌠f this season, but decided against it.

Wolff admitted in Singꦕapore that Mercedes 🌺simply couldn’t afford to do so.

“We haven't produced lightweight parts for the car in order to bring us down from a double digit overweight because we simply haven't got the money𒈔. So we need to do it for next year's car,” Wolff explained.

“We can't homologate a lightweight chassis and bring it in, because it'sꦗ $2m more that we will be over the cap. So you can see every spend more has a performance advantage.”

Upgrades for the whole season - $2-4 million

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto confirmed that $4m would cover thꦓe team’s “development parts for an entire s♚eason.”

So, for half a season, it’s in the region of $2m.

Given that a minor breach is anywhere under $7.25m, there’s no surprise that the likes of Binotto and Wolff are unhappy with Red B☂ull’s breach.

“It’s impo𝕴rtant to understand that even if it is $4m, which falls into the category of what is considered a minor breach, $4m is not minor,” Binotto said in Singapore.

“For us, $4m represents the develo❀pment parts for an entire season. Four million means 70 people in a techni🍌cal department who can come up with and produce solutions that could be worth up to half a second a lap.

“So even if we are looking at something considered a min๊or breach it’s not peanuts.”