Alfa Romeo, forced to reuse parts in 2023 by budget

Alfa Romeo has confirmed that the new porpoise control guidance that the FIA ​​wants to introduce by 2023 will put them and most mid-grid teams “in serious financial difficulty”.

Jan Muncho, Technical Director of Sauber – The team that deals with Alfa Romeo- He was clear in saying that “the future C43 will have to use many other parts of the C42”. Reuse of pieces from the previous year is much higher than in other seasons.

Monchaux clearly stated that the new regulations would “require a lot of financial and human efforts” that were not expected to be used. But above all that The team “has a budget that does not reach the budget line. We are a small team, so we need a more aggressive strategy when it comes to reusing parts.”

“We cannot afford to do everything new in the winter with our employees and we cannot order things from suppliers because this ends up making spare parts more expensive and could jeopardize our development budget during the season,” he warned.

The Alfa Romeo technical director put his finger on the sore area by highlighting a situation that everyone was already anticipating. The budget cap forced the big teams to spend less, but they still had a bigger budget than many mediocre teams, which in some cases aren’t even close to the ceiling. Hence the opposition that some of them were forced to do The cap will be increased due to inflation.

Monchaux said we’ll have to wait for the February tests to see what’s been done with some of the items. If the 2022 cut can be kept or changes have to be made, that would mean starting the season with a certain initial delay.

Even James Key, Technical Director of McLarennoted that they will also have to recycle some parts due to the budget cap, although he stresses that there will be many new things for all the problems they’ve had this year and what they’ve learned about the car.

There was a time when cars lasted two or three seasons with minimal changes. More so because it was sold to private teams which extended the life of the model. But this is something that has already gone down in history and may disappoint Formula 1 fans, who constantly want innovations and live with them.

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