An interesting interview recently with the former boss of Lotus, Matthew Carter, who basically said Horner's calculation of £1.3m is grossly overstated, and believes he's throwing in sunk costs of design and development, and other operational costs into the figure. When he was the Lotus boss, he was selling rolling chassis F1 cars (essentially everything apart from the engine) for £250k and the only way that Horner could get to that quoted figure would be by throwing in everything to make the car, even though there's costs already accrued to bring the car to the grid.
Ironically he called out both RB and Mercedes that they were constantly throwing away parts that didn't work after FP1/FP2 at circuits when that were far greater than the cost of the accident. He feels the number is a bit more of a push or statement against the cost cap, than anything to use against other teams.
Ironically he called out both RB and Mercedes that they were constantly throwing away parts that didn't work after FP1/FP2 at circuits when that were far greater than the cost of the accident. He feels the number is a bit more of a push or statement against the cost cap, than anything to use against other teams.
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