Toto Wolff: There's nothing minor about a Minor Overspend Breach : PlanetF1https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-nothing-minor-in-minor-overspend-breach/In the dark over how minor Red Bull’s minor overspend wasThe FIA have kept mum on how much they believe Red Bull have overspent, the Milton Keynes squad “surprised and disappointed” to be told they have given they insist they were under the cap.
It could be anything from $7 to $7.25 million.
If it’s the former then Red Bull perhaps bought a loaf of bread and a litre of milk too many, catering memes doing the rounds, but if it’s the latter, as Wolff said, that’s double Mercedes’ in-season development budget.
It’s also double Ferrari’s, and a lot more than the likes of Haas and Alfa Romeo had to spend.
In fact Alfa Romeo team boss Fred Vasseur says their budget was only “2.4 million” and that with “200,000 you can bring a big update” and one that’s worth “a couple of tenths for more than one race”.
Based on that, Red Bull potentially gained a massive, nor minor, major (or in F1 terms ‘Material’).
But of course that’s all speculation until the FIA reveals the exact figure…