The team has entered into an accepted breach agreement, which essentially confirms that they admit any wrongdoing and accept all penalties.
Aston Martin also accepted an ABA for its least serious breach of procedure, and details about that are also expected to be revealed on Friday.
The FIA will explain the areas that are in dispute for the two teams as well as the penalties.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner spoke at length with FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem over the US GP weekend, although such conversations technically fall outside the scope of the formal legal process.
Negotiations were suspended following the death of Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz, but were concluded this week.
Red Bull was guilty of both a breach of procedure and a “minor” overrun, believed to be in the order of $1.8 million. The team is supposed to receive a financial and sporting sanction.
It is understood that the latter will mean reduced aero testing heading into 2023. As constructors’ champions, the team will already have less wind tunnel time and CFD usage than any of its rivals. under aerodynamic testing restriction regulations.
For Red Bull, the issues that were up for debate would include factory catering and feeding employees who were not under the cap, sick pay and redundancy issues, and how to deal with leftover spares. at the end of the 2021 season, and their assignment to the heritage department.
We think there may also be a tax problem.
Lance Stroll, Aston Martin AMR22
Photo by: Erik Junius
Asked by Autosport last weekend about the spares issue, Horner said it “had a seven-figure effect on our bid”, suggesting it was probably the most important factor for Red Bull exceeds the cap limit.
He downplayed any potential performance gains from overspending.
“What you need to remember is that the submission can be about 75,000 line items,” Horner said.
“So there’s an enormous amount of data that has to be entered into these submissions and I think it’s only natural that in a first year we have a very complicated set of regulations, to be able to mastering everything is almost impossible, almost impossible.
“And interpretations were made, [that] maybe other teams have been slightly different then a change like this has a huge impact on your application how you filled out your form which if we could have re-submitted it at that time- there, we would have treated him very, very differently.
“So there are probably several teams that have been affected in this way.”
Aston Martin has been found guilty of a procedural flaw believed to be related to a specific UK tax issue which has been interpreted differently by the team and the FIA.
The penalty should be financial only, as was the case for Williams when he was found to have breached the process by submitting documents after the deadline earlier this year.
“I think it’s complex, it’s a complex set of regulations,” noted team boss Mike Krack in Austin last weekend.
“And it’s not frustrating, it shows us that we have to do a better job in the future, that we don’t have such problems.
“But at the end of the day, I think probably the most important thing is that we were under the cap. And the rest is procedural.”
