According to ex-Alpine team boss Marcin Budkowski, the budget limit is anything but perfect. In fact, the Pole says teams can benefit from partnerships with other teams.
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In Formula 1, almost all teams have good contacts with other teams. AlphaTauri for example is a true sister team to Red Bull Racing, Mercedes has very strong ties to Aston Martin, Williams and McLaren and Ferrari regularly manages to get one of their juniors into a Haas F1 or Alfa Romeo spot. The only team without these kinds of partnerships is Alpine, and according to former Alpine team boss Budkowski, that could be a problem.
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Partnerships are particularly important in 2022
In 2022, Formula 1 will come with all-new cars and the budget cap has been lowered to a spending limit of $140 million. According to Budkowski, there could be an advantage in a close partnership between two teams. “The benefits to be gained from partnerships are enormous,” he says, according to FormulaPassion.it.
“If there’s a year when these kinds of partnerships can pay dividends, it’s 2022,” he continues. By this he seems to be referring to the fact that if a team like Red Bull wants to try something, they can first go to AlphaTauri and have it tested without Red Bull having to spend a single cent.
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