Cost cap troubles

Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul believes Formula 1’s smaller outfits will be helped by the distraction of top teams needing to make redundancies after the planned 2021 budget cap is introduced. “We know we have a huge deficit in resources against the teams that ultimately we want to fight against,” he said. “But we also know that things like the budget cap will kick in. It makes no sense to stack up resources knowing that we will have to reduce and go down. In a certain respect it will be most unprofessional to do that, to hire people that we may have to lose in the future.”