国际汽联对F1车队实施严厉新规以阻止成本封顶规则被滥用
国际汽联发布新规,禁止F1人员与非F1员工共享办公空间,并限制在食堂等公共场所工作,以打击车队可能利用成本封顶规则的行为。
一级方程式人员将不再被允许与车队非F1工作人员共享办公空间,也不得在食堂等开放式区域工作,这是国际汽联对车队可能规避成本上限规则的重大打击的一部分。
本周,国际汽联世界汽车运动理事会批准了新发布的法规,为2027年制定了一系列严厉的措施,以阻止车队利用F1的支出规则。
多年来,一直有车队通过使用非F1工作人员帮助将知识输入到他们的F1赛车运营中,而不计入他们的成本上限允许范围内的怀疑。
有一种建议认为,这是通过一级方程式车队创建特殊项目部门来在大奖赛之外工作技术——例如游艇和自行车来实现的。
大多数顶级车队在其组织中都有这样的实体 - 红牛有高级技术部门,梅赛德斯有应用科学部门,阿斯顿·马丁有性能技术部门,而法拉利最近一直在生产一款新的超帆船。在出售给私人投资集团之前,麦克拉伦也有应用科学部门。
尽管从未有任何证据证明,但人们普遍怀疑这些技术部门的员工可能会在成本上限之外获得报酬,同时实际上仍在为F1赛车方面提供帮助。
多年来,国际汽联反复试图打击车队利用这种方式的行为。
2023年,有著名的TD45文件,意味着任何技术部门转让给F1车队的知识产权都必须在成本上限下完全核算。
最近,国际汽联(FIA)关闭了车队通过仅分配部分工资给理论上在F1车队和特殊项目部门之间分时工作的员工来节省成本的能力。
为了阻止车队在这方面偷偷摸摸并低估赛车方面的工作,国际汽联规定,任何对F1车队做出贡献的员工必须将他们的全部工资纳入成本上限。
然而,这仍然不足以让国际汽联完全满意,认为车队没有继续利用非F1员工来帮助他们。
因此,为了2027年,F1操作规则中新增了一个12页的新规则部分,以杜绝任何形式的剥削,并且设计得非常难以规避。
规则有效地对F1和非F1活动的工作人员和IT系统进行了严格的隔离。
车队现在必须采取的措施包括将工厂物理分割成限制区域,只有F1工作人员可以进入的区域和允许非F1人员进入的区域。
这些区域必须通过强制电子访问进行保护,并保留完整的访问日志三年,以便国际汽联进行检查。F1工作人员和非F1工作人员将不能再在同一办公室工作。
可能被F1工作人员和非F1工作人员共同使用的工厂区域,如风洞、模拟器或测功机,可以分配为‘限制共享区域’。然而,这两个群体的人员不能同时占用这些区域,并且不能有信息交叉。
工厂中通常共享的空间——如食堂、走廊、健康区域和停车场——两组员工都可以继续使用,但任何人不得在这些地方进行核心工作。
车队还被告知,他们不能使用消息系统、外部驱动器、合同安排或重新部署技巧来规避限制。
F1和非F1员工使用的IT系统也必须完全隔离,因此任何一方都无法访问另一方。
在有限的情况下,可以从F1车队向非F1业务部门传递知识,但无论如何不允许信息反向流动。
组织内部人员流动也将受到严格限制——通过实施严格的信息封锁来确保知识不会被传递给一级方程式车队。
任何被调到一级方程式方面的非一级方程式人员必须经历三个月的冷却期,在此期间他们不得从事任何一级方程式或非一级方程式活动,并且无法访问任何受限的IT系统。一旦被一级方程式车队雇佣,他们的新合同必须规定之后12个月内专注于一级方程式相关工作。
任何从一级方程式车队调离以担任特殊项目角色的人员都需要一份新合同和全新的IT权限,包括在他们调动前工作日结束时使用的新的电子邮件地址。他们还必须承诺在之后12个月内只从事非一级方程式工作。即使有这些措施,他们的薪水仍然要计入那一年的成本上限。
对在一级方程式和非一级方程式之间调动人员的规定将消除车队试图调动人员以最大化知识和将薪水保持在成本上限之外的努力。
赛车理解到这些新规定的严格性遭到了几个车队的抵制,但国际汽联决心推动这些变革的通过。
接近管理机构的消息来源认为,这些规定范围如此之广,以至于一些车队将不得不改变他们的做事方式,才能完全满足这些要求。
英文原文
Formula 1 personnel will no longer be allowed to share office space with their team's non-F1 staff, nor work in open areas such as canteens, as part of a major FIA clampdown on teams potentially gaming cost cap rules.
In newly published regulations approved this week by the FIA's World Motor Sport Council, a series of draconian measures have been laid down for 2027 to stop teams exploiting F1's spending rules.
For years now there have been suspicions of teams benefitting by using non-F1 staff to help feed knowledge into their F1 racing operations without it counting within their cost cap allowance.
One suggestion was that this was being done through the use of F1 teams creating special projects divisions to work on technology outside of grand prix – such as yachts and cycling.
Most top teams have such entities within their organisations - Red Bull has Advanced Technologies, Mercedes has Applied Science, Aston Martin has Performance Technologies and Ferrari has most recently been producing a new Hypersail yacht. McLaren had Applied Science before it was sold to a private investment group.
While nothing was ever proved, suspicions were rife that staff in technology divisions like these could get paid outside the cost cap for working on non-F1 technologies, while in reality still being on tap to help feed improvements into the F1 racing side of things.
Over the years, the FIA has repeatedly tried to stamp out teams exploiting things this way.
In 2023, there was the famous TD45 document that meant any Intellectual Property that a technology division transferred to an F1 team had to be fully accounted for under the cost cap.
More recently, the FIA shut down the ability of teams to try to save costs by only allocating a share of a salary for staff who were in theory splitting time between an F1 team and a special projects division.
To stop teams being sneaky on this front and underplaying the work done on the racing side of things, the FIA ruled that any personnel who contributed anything to the F1 team had to have their full wages allocated within the cost cap.
However, this was still not enough for the FIA to be fully satisfied that teams are not still exploiting the use of non-F1 staff to help them.
So, for 2027, a new 12-page rules section of F1's Operation Regulations has been added to close off any exploitation and that is designed to be extremely difficult to get around.
The rules effectively impose strict segregation of both staff and IT systems for F1 and non-F1 activities.
Measures that teams now must take include physical division of factories into restricted areas where only F1 staff can enter and those where non-F1 personnel are allowed.
These areas have to be secured by mandatory electronic access, with full access logs kept for three years so they can be checked by the FIA. F1 staff and non-F1 staff will no longer be able to work from the same offices.
Areas of factories that may be used by both F1 staff and non-F1 staff, such as windtunnels, simulators or dynos, can be allocated as ‘Restricted Shared Areas'. However, they cannot be occupied by personnel from both groups at the same time and there must be no information crossover.
Spaces in factories that are commonly shared – such as canteens, corridors, wellbeing areas and parking - can continue to be used by both groups of staff but no one may do their core work from them.
Teams have also been told that they cannot use messaging systems, external drives, contractual arrangements nor redeployment tricks to try to get around the restrictions.
IT systems used by F1 and non F1 staff must also be totally segregated, so neither side can have access to the other.
In limited circumstances, knowledge can be passed from the F1 team to the non-F1 side of the business, but information is not allowed under any circumstances to flow the other way.
The movement of personnel within organisations will also be heavily restricted – with strict information lockdowns in place to ensure that knowledge is not passed to the F1 team.
Any non-F1 personnel being moved to the F1 side of things must undergo a three-month cooling off period where they do not undertake any F1 or non-F1 activities, and have no access to any restricted IT systems. Once employed by the F1 team their new contract must stipulate 12 months of exclusive F1-related work afterwards.
Any movement of staff off an F1 team to take a special projects role requires a new contract and all-new IT permissions, including a new email address that is in play at the end of the working day prior to them moving. There must also be a commitment for them to do only non-F1 work for 12 months afterwards. Even with those measures in play, their salary must still count for that year's cost cap.
The restrictions laid down on personnel moving between the F1 and non-F1 sides of an operation will stamp out any attempt by teams to shuffle staff around to maximise knowledge and keep salaries outside the cost cap.
The Race understands that the strictness of these new regulations met resistance from several teams, but the FIA was determined to push the changes through.
Sources close to the governing body believe that the scope of the regulations is such that some squads are going to have to change how they do things to fully comply with the demands.
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