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Can they catch up with the current budget caps?
According to James in the article, no they can’t. Hopefully the FIA can be convinced to relax capital expenditure regulations for smaller teams at least.
Well that would be odd in a way, since the smaller teams are the ones that wanted budget caps in the first place.
Not really, smaller teams could never catch up without the cap since Mercedes is spending 4-5 times what they are a year. With the cap they can almost catch up, but it’s hard to make up for 10 years of teams spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s better with the cap than without it but they are still so far behind that you’d need to allow them a larger yearly infrastructure budget cap than the winning teams in order for them to catch up.
For example, Mercedes has a fancy as fuck wind tunnel they built 5 years ago when there was no cap for say $300 million. Williams couldn’t afford to do that, so now that we have put in the cap Mercedes has a lasting advantage that Williams doesn’t