

“This is certainly more complicated than it was in the past, but it's also more complicated also for the FIA.Here comes the continuation of official racing series of World Rally Championship, WRC. Stella said of a push to simplify the rules: “That's a direction that we definitely should take because, at the moment, it makes leading and managing Formula 1 teams quite complicated. Scrutiny of this ability was enhanced by Aston Martin overturning a five-second reprimand handed to Fernando Alonso in Saudi Arabia over the way a pitstop penalty was served.Īston founded its successful appeal case by citing conflicting precedent, which left the FIA open to criticism over its implementation of the regulations.

Certainly, we support as McLaren, that is promoted by the FIA, of simplification of the regulations.”įIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has previously spoken of a need to improve resources to boost the body’s capacity to effectively oversee the technical and financial framework. “There's actually a workstream that we all share as teams. “If you think of the financial regulations, if you think how long it takes for the FIA to actually check the declaration, the submissions, it takes months and this is acknowledged. He said of the rulebook: “It is very complex and it is complex for all parties. It is complex for the teams and is complex even for the FIA. With teams having recruited to their financial departments to boost spending oversight to stay within the cost cap limits, and the FIA taking until late October 2022 to penalise Red Bull for exceeding the budget in 2021, Stella reckons now is the time to streamline the legislation. “So, one element that we also wanted to address is that we want to have enough capacity at the leadership level to look into all the opportunities that you have.” “Especially nowadays, I would say even the regulatory framework has become more complicated than in the past. But when you start to look into a Formula 1 team, that's a very complex entity. “They had to do with the technical area, aerodynamics. He said: “The process of innovation and evolution that we have started at McLaren had some priorities that we identified relatively quickly.

This move has been partially prompted by the way the “regulatory framework has become more complicated”. Stella cited the introduction of the cost cap as a key contributing factor.
