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‘Budget cap shouldn't affect Racing Point/Mercedes link'

Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer doesn't think the upcoming budget cap will prompt Mercedes to rethink their relationship. The cap will start at $145m per season from 2021 and reduce further over the following years, with the aim of making Formula 1 more sustainable and competitive. This means that the big three teams, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull, will have to slash their budgets and so the ability to comfortably outspend their rivals will go away. Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul suggested that this may cause those top three teams to cancel their relationships with their so called B-teams further down the grid. Racing Point have struck up a particularly controversial link with...
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