Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali wants the FIA to be handing out sporting sanctions, not financial ones to any team found to be in the breach of the cost cap, amidst rumours of further transgression’s.
Last season (2022), the FIA handing out certificates of 2021 cost compliance for the 10 Formula 1 teams.
Seven passed with flying colours, Aston Martin and Williams were called out on procedural breaches, while Red Bull were found guilty of an overspend breach and fined $7 million as well as being docked 10% of their allotted wind tunnel time.
Should the FIA find any fresh breaches this time around in the 2022 figures, which could reportedly come to pass with three teams said to be heading for a breach, then sporting penalties, like the wind tunnel time portion of Red Bull’s punishment is the route which he wants the FIA to go down.
The range of penalties on the sporting side available to the FIA is rather broad, including a reprimand all the way up to points deductions or a reduction in the cap ceiling for the offending team.
And while it claimed at the time Red Bull would feel the pinch of their 10% reduction in wind tunnel time, that has certainly not yet manifested on track. But the impact is expected to show up towards the end of the season.
If the FIA then is to set a proper deterrent for breaking the boundaries of the cap, then it seems like they made need to dig deeper into penalties to make sure that happens.
Do you think the FIA needs to hand out sporting sanctions? Let me know!
I would like the penalty to be sporting in case of infringement, it is something we asked for very clearly. There are three regulations to be respected: sporting, technical and financial. Any infractions must be punished with sporting measures. You can’t go in other directions. Control is in the hands of the FIA. Personally what I have asked is to anticipate as soon as possible the publication of the investigations made by the staff of the FIA.
Domenicali talking to Autosport.
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