Posted by ashleigh on
January 18, 2008
Has ‘mad’ Max finally made a sensible decision?
The FIA have circulated a letter to the F1 teams this week. It basically sums up the recent talks the teams had about budget caps, and engines.
The letter says that the FIA are going to go ahead and introduce the budget caps in 2009, and also details what will be exempt from the cap.
So far it looks like Drivers, Engines, Marketing and Team Principle salary’s will not have to be found out of the rumoured 150million dollar budget.
Instead it seems the budget is directly targeted at lowering the cost of Aero development, as CFD and wind tunnel usage is not cheap (BMW own a 12-teraflop supercomputer for their CFD usage called Albert2).
The letter also eluded to the rumoured change to the 10 year engine freeze, it seems that it will certainly be lowered to a 5 year freeze, so we are already half way through it, which is good news.
The budget capping is certainly a better idea than the mandated limiting of CFG and Tunnel usage that was first planned by the FIA.
