Good to read that they are closing loopholes left and right. But don’t underestimate the resourcefulness of an f1 team, they’ll find new loopholes to exploit
As they need over half a year to audit the team accounts, I don’t think they will issue any retrospective penalties. I think it’s also a very difficult to balance the penalties, what’s to stop a team from going way over budget one year to gain an advantage over the next few years? And how will you penalize that correctly?
But why? He’s shown before in the Williams that he can perform with a decent car. The AT is simply shit, Tsunoda isn’t doing much better and it’s not that he got to where he is without a few fuckups/meltdowns of his own.
EDIT: as burn points out below, he didn’t race for Mercedes but for Williams, I’ve updated my post to reflect the correct team
Unfortunately they need money for that more. A rookie will cost them less than two decent pilots.
Plus the team is perpetually underfunded, the team is a major let down for me.