Formula One champions Red Bull are exaggerating the impact on next year's car of reduced wind tunnel testing as punishment for a cost cap breach, Mercedes's trackside engineering head Andrew Shovlin said on Saturday.
Red Bull have agreed to pay a fine of $7 million for spending more than allowed last season and will also have 10% less time to test in the wind tunnel over the next 12 months.Team boss Christian Horner told reporters at the Mexico City Grand Prix on Friday that the wind tunnel reduction was 'draconian'.Shovlin questioned that assertion, saying: "I think describing it as draconian is an exaggeration.
"You definitely have to be more efficient but if it were half a second, which I'd heard mentioned, then a team at the back of the grid would have over three seconds advantage to one at the front and that simply isn't the case. Red Bull finished runners-up to Mercedes in the constructors' championship in 2021 but won the drivers' title with Max Verstappen. This year they have won both crowns.
Mekies said Ferrari had looked into how much you could do to improve the car if you spent half a million, a million or two above the cost cap.
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