Toto Wolff
Toto Wolff is the team boss of Mercedes. Photo: Jan Woitas
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“The difficulty is the controllability of the expenses, because the teams are very differently positioned,” said the Austrian of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. In the negotiations on a new basic contract from 2021 on, the budget limit for the racing teams is a central issue. The spending limit is to slow down the top teams and thus increase the competition on the track.
Wolff assured, the series world champion Mercedes was for the introduction of such a scheme. For their enforcement, however, a catalog of punishments for the case of intentional violations must be set up. “Formulating everything is very complex,” said the 47-year-old.
Teams like Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull invest hundreds of millions of euros in racing every year. Smaller racing teams can not compete financially and are permanently suspended. For six years, only drivers of the three top teams have won races in Formula One.
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