F1 | Toro Rosso, Tost: “The budget cap is an idea that can work”

The expense ceiling, the famous budget cap, has often been talked about in the past, with the FIA ​​which in Max Mosley's time was unable to impose this stratagem on the teams to reduce costs. It has always been the larger teams who have opposed the introduction of the budget cap, who have their own nice wallets of almost five hundred million euros per season, with all due respect to the smaller teams.

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost, however, believes that the limit on resources is an idea that could work, with the FIA ​​having fewer problems than expected in controlling the conduct of the teams.

“Each team could be given a limit of 150 million euros and the FIA ​​would then have to monitor - Tost told the Austrian newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung - The top teams will cry, they will say there is no way to control expenses, but in my opinion this is nonsense. I, at Toro Rosso, know how much every single bolt costs. The budget cup could very well be controlled; if any team does not want to present the documentation, the FIA ​​could make them pay double the average price of each component in question. You will see how diligently the teams would present their invoices to the FIA! We have a huge need to reduce costs, there is no such thing as spending 450 million euros a year to design two cars. These are disproportionate costs, even the big manufacturers must understand this, we spend too much money in F1."

Antonino Rendina