Bosses from a number of Forꦰmula 1 teams have expressed their anger over the possibility of recent FIA technical chief Marcin Budkowski joining Renault, with one calling a possible move “entirely inappropriate”.

Budkowski tendered his resignation at the FIA ea༒rlier this week, with F1’s governing body confirming he had been placeꦆd on gardening leave for three months.

Budkowski has acted as the main point of reference for any teams seeking clarity regarding the technical regulations, giving🥀 him insight into the entire gri🦋d’s car designs and plans.

Reports emerged on Frida🧸y in Sepang that Budkowski could be s💞et for a role at Renault once his gardening leave is over, leading to an angry response from F1 team bosses about the prospect.

“We take major issue with ꧂that, if he does end up in another team,” Red Bull F1 chief 🎃Christian Horner said.

“In these 🌄individuals you place a great amount of trust in the role Marcin has been responsible for. He’s been in an extremely privileged position where he’s extremely recent♊ly been in people’s wind tunnels, been looking at intimate details of knowledge of next year’s cars.

“I think three months’ notice period for him to then turn up in a competitor team in Fo♔rmula 1 is entirely inappropriate, so I certainly hope that isn’t the case and🧸 I’m sure it will get discussed quite seriously at the next Strategy Group meeting.

“It’s an important, vital role and it’s important teams have trust and faith in the governing body that they can share and discuss their technical know-how, their technical secrets in many respects, which cost millions and milli💫ons of pounds, and in confidence that information doesn’t have the ability to e🎃nd up at a rival team.”

The time frame before Bu𓆏dkowski should be able to join another team was also discussed by Force India boss Otmar Szafnauer, who said three months is “nowhere near long enough”.

“It has to be long enough such that the technology that he’s aware becomes, not oꦡbsolete but not leading edge,” he contin𝄹ued.

“I th🅘ink there’s some sporting regulations too that prohibit us from selling current-year cars✱ for exactly the same reason, the cars have to be exactly one year before we can dispose of them.

“It’s for that reason and I t﷽hink notice periods should follow along the sam🃏e lines.”

“I think i🥃ndustry standard for the sort of role Marcin has been performing would be anywhere between 12 and 18💦 months,” Horner added.

“We would certainly look to place a senior personnel on our team on at least 12 mont♈hs’ gardening leave.”

Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff ackno🍎wledged the need to review the timings involved to ensure clarity for all teams.

“We need to be transparent with the FIA and give the access,” Wolff said. “Therefore in order to havꦿe the full trust of the teams it is important to have a certain stability and understanding about how quick someone can leave the FIA a💛nd join another competitive team.”

The swiftness of Budkowski joining another team was also McLaren racing director Eric Boulli♊er’s ✤chief concern, suggesting it could hurt the trust placed in the FIA’s processes.

“I think we are all a bit concerned about a senior figure from the FIA having access to all data can be within th⭕ree months working for a team, which I guess is common sense,” Boullier said.

“When you build your cars, there is always an interpretation of the regulations, so you sometimes got in touch with the FIA to seek their interpretation to see if you are on the right path 🧸or not.

“That trust level can be damaged if something happened again like the Budkowski case. It’s a que💫stion to raise it to the right people and see if something can be done differently.”

However, Boullier felt t💯hat any changes made to the process would only affect future deals, saying it was “too late” to resolve the Budkowski matter.

“Of course it's too late. We are going to ask the FIA is it possiblജe to do differently because we believe it’s not the way it should be,” Boullier said.

“There have been many cases in the past, back to the ‘90s when the software code was a big issue in Formula 🌞1. You can’t stop somebody to g𒀰o to work somewhere, you have to respect the rules and the law in different countries.

“But we believe for a senior person ther✨e is a minimum.”

Renault﷽ is yet to issue any comment responding to reports that Budkowski could be set to join its team once his three-month period of gardening leave is complete.