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      1 year ago

      Not wanting to take too much away from max and red bull but I do wonder how well other teams would be doing it they had also ignored the cost cap.

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        1 year ago

        Strange way of saying “I wonder how well other teams would be doing if they had also nailed the new regulations to perfection”

      • @Tagger Good point. I totally forgot about the cost cap issue. But they only went over by like $2mil - compared to the overall limit of $140mil, that’s a drop in the bucket. What were they even spending that on? Lunches for everyone?

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        1 year ago

        Mate, let it go. Ultimately is was 400k I believe?

        The decreased wind tunnel-time and CFD-time do have an impact, so I can’t imagine any advantage from that 400k to still be lasting.

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          1 year ago

          The 400k is a lie. It was over a million. The 400k figure was if they had applied for a tax break they didn’t apply for and had been granted it.

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            1 year ago

            If you are correcting figures one way, you have to correct them both ways. That is how financial auditors always work.

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                1 year ago

                I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn’t matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.

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                  Ah, okay, that makes sense I guess. Seems weird from a lay point of view, but if that’s the industry standard.

                  Thanks for explaining.