Sky Sports – Red Bull Drama Drags on After Christian Horner’s Assessment Gets Thrown Out of the Window

The Red Bull cost cap saga seems to never end. Back in October, the whole fiasco seemingly came to an end with a fine of $7 million being imposed and a 10% deduction in aero testing time. That being said, their rivals raised a huge hue and cry about the proportionality of the whole fine. Red Bull, on their end, has vehemently maintained that no actual benefit was accrued out of their minor overspending breach. However, Sky Sports F1’s David Croft has now seemingly added more fuel to the fire.

There seems to be no love lost between Sky Sports F1 and Red Bull. Last season, things got ugly between Red Bull and Sky after Ted Kravitz said some controversial things about Max Verstappen. It would appear now, that Croft has gone on to diss the Milton-Keynes-based outfit once again.

Christian Horner had earlier said, “What you have to look at is what are the relevant costs? And what are the relevant costs within the cap and what’s outside of the cap? Our view is our relevant costs are within the cap.”

But Croft has rubbished these claims. He said, “Red Bull say there was no benefit, there has to be a benefit because they were the only team that spent more than the cost cap allowed. So within that regard, there has to be a benefit in some way, shape or form from that overspend.”

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But Max Verstappen has now also come out in defense of his team.

Max Verstappen reveals the reality of the cost cap penalty’s impact on Red Bull

There’s a lot of noise, still, around the whole cost cap breach committed by Red Bull. That being said, the main point of contention is the apparent impact it will have on Red Bull’s 2023 challenger, probably the RB19. 2x Champion, Max Verstappen, has now opened up about this.

He told Auto Motor und Sport, “It’s [FIA’s penalty] going to hurt us. But I am confident that my team will get it right and we will have a good start. We know where to start and what to work on. If we were at a loss as to which direction to go in, it would be an even bigger problem. We will find out over the year how much we actually suffer.”

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Do you agree with Verstappen’s appraisal? Or do you think it was a mere slap on the wrist by the FIA?