Spending Limit Looms Large

Red Bull team chief Christian Horner has said budget caps are once again on the agenda. The contentious issue divided teams in 2009 when then president Max Mosley pushed to a bring a limit to spending to the sport. 
These  kind of caps are common in sport and are supposed to stop huge investors taking over the game and making it one sided.

Christian Horner
Red Bull Team Chief

 Here's Christian Horner's comments on the issue

"We agree with restricting activity but don’t cherry-pick let’s do a transparent once and for all deal with this.”  (Another way of saying he wants a budget cap)

“The other major problem Red Bull Racing had with the Resource Restriction Agreement was that wanted to introduce a penalty which just encourages infighting. The little teams see an opportunity to make some income and you end up with a situation of whistle-blowing. You can see it at the moment, it is putting the teams against each other which is not what FOTA was supposed to do.”“The sport’s 12 teams had an average budget of £107m last year, with Ferrari the biggest spender, having £248m at their disposal.”

"Contrary to speculation, we completely adhered to the RRA within 2010. Red Bull Racing had their cheapest ever year in Formula One last year in terms of their net spend and that will diminish further this year. The Resource Restriction Agreement saved us a lot of money."