霍纳呼吁重新审视F1预算帽
克里斯蒂安·霍纳呼吁F1提高2.15亿美元的预算帽，称“车队每年要花5亿到6亿美元”。F1自2021年起实行预算帽制度，上限从1.45亿美元逐步提高到2.15亿美元。
克里斯蒂安·霍纳呼吁重新审视F1预算帽：“车队每年要花5亿到6亿美元”
F1自2021年起实行预算帽，目前上限为2.15亿美元，另加其他支出
克里斯蒂安·霍纳呼吁F1提高2.15亿美元的预算帽，称“车队每年要花5亿到6亿美元”。
自2021年起，F1实行预算帽制度，限制车队每赛季的支出，上限从1.45亿美元起步，最终提高到2.15亿美元。
但这2.15亿美元并不涵盖F1车队的每一项开支，因为车手合同、非车手收入前三名员工的薪资、差旅费用和营销支出都不包括在内。
还有许多其他方面未被纳入，同时还有一项单独的1.9亿美元动力单元预算上限，这意味着在车队估值屡创新高的情况下，成本依然高得惊人。
因此，霍纳——其前东家红牛车队曾超出2021年预算上限5%，从而被罚款700万美元并削减10%的风洞和CFD测试时间——敦促F1重新审视这一制度。
“最初几年，各队还在适应这些规则，”他告诉《汽车运动》。“我们第一年因此受罚的那些事情，放到现在根本不算问题，甚至第二年也不会是问题。”
“所以我认为他们已经把很多规则都绑定了，我现在看到的是，预算帽略高于2亿美元，但车队却花了5亿或6亿美元。
“预算帽里需要纳入更多东西。我认为引擎方面的上限，可以说，作为一个包罗万象的上限，是件好事，问题只是这个水平定在哪里？
“F1车队有多少钱就会花多少钱，这就像一个气不够的气球，你挤一头，气就会跑到别处去。
“所以你现在会看到车手保留金比预算帽之前健康得多，关键是要找到那个正确的平衡，我认为现在所有这些业务都不再是负债了。
“即便是发车区上最小的车队，估值也达到数十亿美元。五六七年前，它们还会被视为负债。”
“因此，这为这些车队或特许经营权注入了真正的价值，像哈斯或威廉姆斯这样的车队排名也上升了。”
但威廉姆斯对预算帽仍不太满意，因为车队领队詹姆斯·沃尔斯本月声称，领先车队从中获益比发车区其他车队更多。
这位英国人认为，他的车队在赛车和人员成本上的支出受到限制，因为它将这笔钱用于资本支出，而资本支出属于预算帽范围。
然而，红牛、梅赛德斯和法拉利等车队在预算帽实施前已经斥巨资建设世界级设施，所以现在它们可以直接把那2.15亿美元投入到赛道上的投资中。
尽管如此，预算帽仍然给F1带来了巨大的积极影响，车队比以往任何时候都更加稳定，考虑到印度力量是2018年最后一支进入破产管理的车队。
“在那之前，F1就像是一个底部有洞的装满钱的桶，”霍纳补充道。
“你会尽可能跑得远，直到钱用完，并且花费比实际拥有的多一点。结果我们看到许多车队来来去去，而现在有了预算帽，它推动了效率。
埃斯特班·奥康，印度力量车队，2018年西班牙大奖赛
“我记得预算帽之前，赛季结束时我们会有大量未使用的库存，那些零件从未见过赛车，价值数千万英镑。
“我们会有这些是因为知识产权，你不想让它流到外面，你也不会销毁它，所以它们就堆在仓库里，满是底板、尾翼和悬挂部件——有点像《印第安纳·琼斯：夺宝奇兵》里的场景！
“现在有了预算帽，你就没有这种奢侈了，所以你在制造什么、如何花钱、这些部件的使用和消耗方面要精挑细选得多。
“这确实提升了企业的效率，所以现在会计团队在赢得大奖赛方面与设计团队发挥着同样重要的作用。”
“到我离开的时候，会计部门的规模已经和绘图室一样大了，因为财务规则与体育规则或技术规则同样重要。”
英文原文
Christian Horner calls for F1 budget cap rethink: "Teams are spending $500 or $600m"
F1 has operated under a budget cap since 2021, currently valued at $215m plus other expenditures
Christian Horner has called on Formula 1 to increase the $215million budget cap, claiming “teams are spending $500 or $600million” year on year.
From 2021 the championship has operated under a budget cap system which limits how much a team can spend per season, with it starting at $145m before eventually increasing to $215m.
But that $215m doesn’t cover every single cost made by an F1 team, as driver contracts, the salaries of the top three non-driver earners, travel costs and marketing spend aren’t included.
There are many other aspects not included, whereas there is also a separate $190m power unit budget cap, meaning costs are still astronomically high amid record-breaking team values.
So Horner, whose former Red Bull squad breached the 2021 cap by 5%, thus receiving a $7m fine and 10% reduction in wind tunnel and CFD testing, has urged F1 to rethink the system.
“In the early years there was a bedding into those rules,” he told Autosport. “The things that we got charged with in that first year now would not be an issue, or even in the second year.
“So I think they've tied it up, a lot of the regulations, what I see now is that you've got a budget cap of just over $200m but teams are spending $500 or $600m.
“More needs to be included within the cap. I think the cap on the engine side, arguably, as an all-encompassing cap, is a good thing, it's just what is that level?
“Formula 1 teams will spend as much money as they have and it's like a balloon with not enough air in it, if you squeeze it one end, the air is going to go somewhere else.
“So you'll now see driver retainers far healthier than they were pre-budget cap and it's finding that right balance and I think all of these businesses now, they're no longer liabilities.
“Even the smallest team on the grid has a multi-billion dollar valuation. Five, six, seven years ago, they would have been seen as liabilities.
“So it's driven real value into these teams, or franchises, that a team like Haas or Williams has come up the rankings.”
But Williams is still not particularly happy with the budget cap, as team boss James Vowles claimed this month that the frontrunners benefit from it more than the rest of the grid.
The Briton reckons his team is limited on what it can spend on the car and personnel costs, because it is putting that money towards capital expenditure which falls under the cap.
Teams like Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari, however, had already spent heavily on world-class facilities before the cap, so now it can just put that $215m straight into on-track investment.
Despite that, the budget cap has still brought vast positives to F1 with teams more stable than ever, considering Force India is the last constructor to have entered administration in 2018.
“Prior to that, Formula 1 was like having a bucket full of money with a hole in the bottom,” added Horner.
“You'd run as far as you could with it until it ran out and spend a bit more than you actually had. We saw many teams come and go as a result and now with a budget cap, it's driven efficiency.
Esteban Ocon, Force India, at 2018 Spanish GP
“I remember pre-budget cap, the amount of unused stock that we would have at the end of the season, that had never seen a racing car, it'd be tens of millions of pounds.
“We’d have because the IP, you don't want it to go anywhere, you're not going to destroy it, and so they just sit in warehouses full of floors and wings and suspension parts - something like out of an Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark scenario!
“Now with a budget cap you don't have that luxury, so you're much more selective in what you manufacture, how you spend your money, the usage and the consumption of those parts.
“It’s driven a real efficiency into the businesses, so the accounts teams play as big a role as the design teams now in terms of winning grands prix.
“By the time I left, the accounting department was as big as the drawing office because the financial rules are as important as the sporting or technical rule.”
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