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Top teams ‘holding F1 hostage’ over sprint damage allowance

Top teams 'holding F1 hostage' over sprint damage allowance

Part of the agreement for the three experimental sprint races held last year was an allowance within the new the budget cap framework for competing in the extra events.

Teams were given an allowance of $150,000 per event or $450,000 in total just for taking part in the three sprints.

The teams were also given a $100,000 damage allowance for each sprint race should a car be involved in an accident, and thus up to a $300,000 worth of spending that usually would be counted as coming under the budget cap could be discounted from the total.

The top teams have been pushing for extra leeway in 2022, when six sprint races will be held.

However, Brown believes that they are asking for an unrealistic increase purely because the overall budget cap limit drops from $145m to $140m this year, and thus anything that can be clawed back will be welcomed by the biggest spenders.

While Brown has highlighted the issue before, he went a step further in his criticism in a column published on the…

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