F1 News: 2022 Cost Cap Results To Be Out Soon

According to Scuderia Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur, the Formula 1 teams are expected to receive the FIA's cost cap investigation verdict for 2022 by the beginning of September.

Last year, Red Bull was under fire for breaching the cost cap limit in 2021 and as a result, it was punished with a $7 million fine and a 10 percent reduction in aerodynamic testing, which according to many was a lenient punishment for the winning team which broke the cost cap limit by a whopping $1.86 million.

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Previously, Vasseur had spoken out on the ineffectiveness of the punishment to Gazzetta Dello Sport when he said:

"A penalty like last year really isn't severe.

"If it should be necessary again, such a penalty should be much heavier.

"You have to keep in mind that a technical advantage will translate into a sporting advantage. Therefore, the penalty should be sporting and not a fine.

"In soccer, if you use a hand, it's a penalty... they don't give you a [non-sporting] penalty.

"The deduction of 10 per cent wind tunnel time is a big joke. They have already done most of the work by then."

He had also added that with a punishment value like that, teams could account for the fine amount in their budgets in order to wilfully break the cost cap limit to their advantage.

It has been speculated that several teams have broken the cost cap limit in 2022 and FIA is under the obligation to announce the names. Speaking to Crash.net, Vasseur expressed that he has full trust in the FIA:

"We had communication in July that the result of the investigation will come by the beginning of September or something like this - a matter of weeks.

"The plan was beginning of September.

"I fully trust the FIA on the fact that they’re doing the job and they will come with the results of the cost cap investigation with their plan at the beginning of September.”

Vasseur's eagerness says a lot. As if he knows something about the 2022 cost cap results that we don't know yet and hence, he is keen on waiting for the 'beginning of September'.