LONDON : Formula One fans are seeing the benefits of this year's cost cap and the new rules coming for 2022, the sport's managing director Ross Brawn said on Tuesday with the championship battle on a knife-edge.Mercedes' seven times champion Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Max Verstappen have traded the lea
LONDON : Formula One fans are seeing the benefits of this year's cost cap and the new rules coming for 2022, the sport's managing director Ross Brawn said on Tuesday with the championship battle on a knife-edge.
Four teams and six drivers have won races so far, although Verstappen has won seven and Hamilton five. "There is no capacity for a team to pour massive resource into a championship and try and run away with it. The resources are now limited and the teams are also focused on next year’s car, which is requiring a lot of time and resource.
Mercedes, winners of the past seven drivers' and constructors' championships, said in June that development on this year's car had stopped with the team focusing on major changes for next season.The US$145 million budget cap introduced this season is set to drop to US$135 million in 2023.