Exaclty this. The problem isn't spending money for upgrade everyone sees. The problem is spending money on things we don't see. The upgrades that didn't work in CFD or worse, the windtunnel. That is time (and money) wasted.etusch wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 10:32they build a finance team for that. If the f team didn't plan whole season spendings for every department of the racing team then that means they are very unaffective and useless. I think Redbull is one of the best from operational aspect and will do it in the budget.chrstphrln wrote: ↑10 Jun 2022, 11:34I'm curious to see how long the development at RB will continue at this pace.
I suspect towards the end of the season there will be a lot of discussion about the budget cap and penalties.
Or the need of producing more replacement parts, because of crashes, or (and people seem to forget this) because upgrades didn't work. The last because the original parts are running out of mileage and need to be replaced, preferably with upgrades, but if they don't work, teams are forced to produce more pre-update parts. That is time, resources and money spend that was planed for upgrades that should have worked.
That RB bring a lot of upgrades to the track doesn't mean they're spending more money.
Teams that are more likely to run into budget cap trouble are team that have trouble to understand their own design. They don't know in with direction to go and have to developed (at least in CFD) in multiple directions to see what works and what doesn't. That will always cost more time and money. (Mercedes? AM?)