Last season most F1 teams halted any development push on their 2021 cars early in a bid to get ahead of the game for this year’s all-new technical regulations.
While 2021 was an outlier in that regard, Mekies believes the sport’s budget cap will still limit in-season developments compared to pre-2020 levels, as the financial restrictions put in place to make F1 more sustainable will reduce the number of updates teams can afford to pump out.
“Not compared to this year, because this year obviously was near zero, or at least for us was very little, but if you go back to 2019, 2018, we think you will see less,” Mekies said.
“In 2018, 2019, in the big teams, you had something every race on the car or every other race.
“It sounds difficult from our perspective to have a high number of updates with the constraints that we have.”
The cost cap, which has been lowered to a base figure of $140m this year – excluding add-ons – means F1’s biggest teams have had to be more disciplined about…
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