Red Bull might have broken the F1 teams’ cost saving agreement, according to former FIA president Max Mosley.<\/p>\n
During an interview with Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, the 70-year-old said the Resource Restriction Agreement (RRA) has proved an ineffective substitute for his budget cap proposal that was the subject of a bitter dispute in 2009.<\/p>\n
“The effect of this (RRA) agreement is minimal,” he said, “which is the reason the teams agreed to it.<\/p>\n
“At the last FOTA meeting last Thursday,” Mosley revealed, “Red Bull asked for an exception.<\/p>\n
“If that’s true, that can only mean they spent more than they were allowed, and now they’re asking for the (other) teams’ okay.<\/p>\n
“I am interested to know how their opponents are going to react,” he added.<\/p>\n
Mosley describes the RRA as a “sham”.<\/p>\n
“I’ll give an example — the teams are limited to a certain number of employees, let’s say 100.\u00a0 If I walk through the paddock with a lot of money, then I get the best 100 people.<\/p>\n
“So you still have no chance against the rich teams.\u00a0 The only thing that will work is a budget limit.\u00a0 A bigger budget is like having a bigger engine,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
Mosley is especially scathing of Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who is critical of the small teams and pushing for more private testing and three car entries.<\/p>\n
“On the one hand he complains that the new teams are too slow, and on the other hand he asks for something (more testing) that will widen the gap even more.<\/p>\n
“The third car is complete nonsense, giving the big teams even more power, politically and sporting.\u00a0 It’s also against the spirit of F1 — it needs different blood.<\/p>\n
“Without new teams, F1 would die.\u00a0 The problem with Luca is he has never had to build a team from nothing and doesn’t know how hard it is.<\/p>\n
“F1 has a lot of problems but Luca only adds to them.”<\/p>\n
However, Mosley said Ferrari was the only team that stayed “loyal” to him during the sex scandal, weakening his resolve to push on with the budget cap era.<\/p>\n
“My plan was to go through with it with the other teams, with Ferrari threatening to withdraw.\u00a0 I would have chanced it because we all know they wouldn’t really have gone,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But then came the affair with the (News of the World) newspaper.\u00a0 Ferrari was the only team that stayed loyal, so I couldn’t really do something like that to them.”<\/p>\n
Mosley also said it is too early to judge his successor as FIA president, Jean Todt.<\/p>\n
“This season was very good, but it is a time of transition.\u00a0 I think we’ll only be able to assess Jean Todt in another year,” he added.<\/p>\n
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