Canada GP news expected this week
Sebastian Vettel, Canadian GP 2019
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News about the 2021 Canadian GP should be forthcoming this week .
That is the claim of Quebec s economics and innovation minister Pierre Fitzgibbon, amid reports regional and federal health authorities consider the Montreal race too unsafe to go ahead amid the pandemic. The sea freight to Baku and Montreal should have left already, Alfa Romeo team manager Beat Zehnder told Auto Motor und Sport.
Fitzgibbon insisted that authorities are dealing with the situation as quickly as possible. We are currently in negotiations, he told Le Journal de Montreal newspaper. It is a tourist event of paramount importance for Quebec and, in fact, it is the most important in Canada.
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‘Rich teams may find it difficult to adjust to cap’ PlanetF1 3/02/2021 © Getty Images Alfa Romeo are stepping up preparations for the start of the season
Operating under a budget cap as of this season, Alfa Romeo sports director Beat Zehnder believes F1’s “rich teams” may struggle to adjust but that it will only be felt in 2023 at the earliest.
Although last year Formula 1 opted to delay the introduction of a new aerodynamic package until 2022, the sport’s bosses agreed that the proposed budget cap would still come into effect.
That means this season the teams can only spend $145 million, which will drop to $140 million for 2022 and $135 million for 2023-2025.
Alfa Romeo: Cost cap benefit will be felt in 2023 and 2024
3 February, 2021
Alfa Romeo sports director Beat Zehnder believes that some of the bigger teams will find it “difficult” to adapt to the new Formula 1 cost cap.
The cap will be introduced in 2021 at $145 million, before falling to £140 million in 2022 and $135 million in 2023, with key exceptions including driver salaries and marketing expenses.
The move is aimed at reducing the cost of running a team in F1 in light of the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also levelling the playing field between the richer teams and those with fewer resources.