Budget cap will mean fewer in-season updates in F1 2022

Last season most F1 teams halted any development push on their 2021 cars early in a bid to get ahead of the game for this year’s all-new technical regulations.

While 2021 was an outlier in that regard, Mekies believes the sport’s budget cap will still limit in-season developments compared to pre-2020 levels, as the financial restrictions put in place to make F1 more sustainable will reduce the number of updates teams can afford to pump out.

“Not compared to this year,…