The budget cap situation continues to warm spirits. In fact, we are getting more and more into the heart of the situation, with the Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner who has come out on the matter.
Horner: 'We didn't get any benefit'
In fact, during the Texan morning, the team principal of the Austrian team spoke at a press conference to clarify his team's position on the budget cap case. In fact, the FIA has declared that the Red Bull has failed to meet the 2021 spending cap, but not exceeding 5%. Ecosystem's staff is Milton Keynes team, at the start, had rejected that decision stating that he has not committed any wrongdoing. After so many rumors, like the possible settlement offer of FIA, Horner took stock of the situation.
"SWe are absolutely and categorically convinced that we have not had any of the benefits either for 2021, or for 2022, or for the future, as other teams have said. We will absolutely be open if a solution is found. We are now in dialogue with the FIA and we are waiting for the matter to be closed. At that point all the facts will be put on the table and after that we can talk about why we feel our costs are in line.”
"I've been talking to the FIA for ten days, hopefully we can reach a conclusion in the near future, maybe this weekend. We can also go before the board or an appeals court. I think it is in everyone's and all sportsmen's interest to resolve this situation as quickly as possible. The FIA findings have been made recently and we are in a voluntary process with the Federation, who are looking into the matter. We filed an interim request in 2021 and received no feedback that we had done anything wrong.”
"Then we made another submission in March and didn't hear back until September. All relevant costs and what is outside the budget cap must be considered. We consider them and all our costs are the relevant ones. We had zero benefit from 2021 and 2022 but we expected some things to be disputed".
STATEMENT SOURCE: FormulaPassion
