F1 int🌟roduced a $145m spending cap in 2021 in a bid to cut costs and help level out the pl𒀰aying field. 

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and Red Bull’s Christian Horner have cla🅰imed both their teams have been forced to make staff redundancies to ensure they have stayed within budget. 

But Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has claimed the big teams are finding ways to relocate staff within their organisation that keeps them within the cost cap🧸.𝓀 

"When everyone's the right size, you lose that [advantage]. You lose that a little bit,” Szafnaꦗuer is quoted as saying by GPFansꦚ. 

“What so🔥me of the other bigger teams are now doing is they're looking to exploit or have a better understanding of where there are𒆙 loopholes or some organisational changes you can make to actually stuff more people under that budget cap.

"They're looking at: 'Yeah, I got rid of a hundred people, but now I want to hire back because u🐭nder the budget cap I was able to find spots for them where they either don't count as a whole person or th🍌ey do some marketing stuff or whatever it is, or they work on a boat for some of the time’.

"We're not there yet. I t🍰hink they're there already, and that advantage of being right at the beginning does dissipate.ꦗ”

Back in October, Red Bull were hit with a $7m fine and docked 10 percen🔯t of🌱 their wind tunnel time over the next 12 months for breaching the cost cap during Max168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Verstappen’s maiden title-winning campaign in 2021. 

Red Bull fiercely denied throughout the saga that they had gone over the cost cap but F1’s governing body, the FIA, later revealed the Milton Keynes team had wrongly excluded costs in a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:number of areas including catering, which ultimately led ꦏto an overspend of £1.8m.