A cap on RPM’s and a few other short term (3 years before review) development freezes could save a fortune, add a few standard components to the car and you’ve got yourself a sizeable reduction in engine costs.

By reducing the aerodynamics on the cars there’d be less need for wind tunnels and computer modelling plus you get the added advantage of more exciting racing :~)

It would need thinking through very well, but surely it offers a better outcome than everyone driving with the same engine.

If Ferrari do some R&D at their factory are they doing it for F1 or their road cars ?
The same is true for all teams with connections to production car manufacturers.

Unless the FIA had people monitoring both the factories & the accounts then it is impossible for them to be able to tell who is really spending what, if the teams want to hide it then the accountants will find a way, that’s what they’re paid for.

I doubt the FIA has the people who are able to effectively police a budget cap. We’d just end up with endless court cases over alleged spending.

1. I don’t believe they could enforce it.
2. Even if they could, I don’t believe they could convince all the teams that it was being enforced.

I appreciate that a budget cap wouldn’t be straightforward because of cross subsidies within organisations and investment costs incurred in one year but the results used in another year.

But, it isn’t beyond modern accounting practices to come up with something workable.

Or is it?

Some teams will be sold and renamed, and if Max gets his way with cost cutting, customer cars etc then we may even get more than 10 teams in F1.