“It is to make it a level playing field,” Guenther Steiner unconcerned with the budget cap limit amidst increased inflation
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Guenther Steiner and Haas, like all other teams will have to deal with the budget cap despite the rise in inflation. The problems of the American team were increased after the Monaco Grand Prix which saw both their drivers retire out of the race for different reasons. This would in turn mean that more money needs to be spent on repairs rather than development which could have given them the edge.
Kevin Magnussen’s Haas had to brought back into the pits and eventually retired due to water leak which gave rise to a different issue in the car. But the more damaging incident has to be the Mick Schumacher crash which brought back the memories of 2020 when the world saw the Haas of Romain Grosjean sliced into half and drivers miraculously jumping out of the car through the flames.
Fortunately that didn’t happen with Mick but the accident was still pretty severe. The German lost the rear of the car coming out of Turn 15 and eventually crashing into the tecpro barriers. This carved up the VF-22 into two with the rear wing and tyres detaching itself from the car. The driver was alright, fortunately, but what this means is that a considerable portion of the budget will have to be spent to get the car ready before the next Grand Prix.
Guenther Steiner feels Haas will be okay going into the last few races of the season despite the budget cap
Despite of all that, Haas’ team Principal Guenther Steiner feels the team will be okay with the budget cap in place. He said, “The right thing, in our opinion, is to see what actually…and there is work behind done, what is actually the cost?”
“There is some, I call them hard costs, like the transport costs, they went up big this year, so getting a little bit of numbers together and that we are not escalating the budget cap or getting the budget cap higher for the future as well.“
“Because if we start now with 10 percent inflation and we keep on going, where do we stop? And the budget cap was there for one thing, to make it a level playing field,” as reported by planetf1.
The budget cap obviously plays in favor of the midfield teams as they get a chance to fight with the top teams otherwise they would have been blown away by the immense resources of the Top 3.
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