While senior figures assure the Formula 1 world that progress is being made with regards to the 2021 rules, the elephant in the room remains the growing gap between the big three teams and the rest which the sport's motorsport director Ross Brawn intends to address. The big teams, Ferrari and Mercedes in particular, are wary of a budget cap which they argue will mean cutting jobs while ‘cheapening' the image of Formula 1. At the same time, the half-billion-dollar budgets going into annual race programmes are simply not sustainable and hardly going to attract new competitors to the grid, while small teams struggle to survive. Brawn is well aware of the two divides and has a plan to...
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