chrisc90 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 21:14
If Ferrari reckon that RB have used most of their budget in 5 races with 2 lots of upgrades using Ferrari's reckoned costing of the upgrades (as Binotto said in a interview) Then maybe the cost of Ferrari doing upgrades is a LOT more than what it costs RB to develop?
Ferrari didn't say any of that, motorsport did via Nunes who is unreliable generally.
I'm obviously speculating, but it's not exactly like RedBull is spending half of the money of the other teams. When talking about 2021 development race RedBull team said:
https://the-race.com/formula-1/will-202 ... s-in-2022/
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache argued late last year that the compromise of ’22 design for ’21 development was not large.
“The last development was in Sochi, with manufacturing lead times that was a July development,” said Wache. “So not a massive compromise.
“It’s not just development time you are trading off, it’s also manufacturing because you want a lot of spares and parts for the new car. At some point you have to stop.
“But we have a very good manufacturing facility and that gives us a lot of freedom in terms of longer development. I think our release dates for parts can be later than some others.”
Furthermore it's unlikely everyone here is aware that RedBull is efficient with development and Ferrari, who hired people out of RedBull this year, negotiates contracts with personnel from other teams and so on, somehow is totally unaware of other teams' baseline R&D costs.
All that Binotto said is that RedBull brought a lot of updates in each race of the season and that pace of development shouldn't be sustainable given what they know costs are. He then added that their updates will arrive and that he hopes to catch up.
To me that seems very reasonable. How Nunes got that out of Binotto's words is beyond me.