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Driver salaries should be in F1's budget cap - McLaren

The salaries of Formula 1 drivers should not have been exempt from the new-for-2021 budget cap, according to McLaren boss Zak Brown. Formula 1 will introduce financial regulations for the first time in 2021, with each team prohibited from spending more than $175m per season. But the respective salaries of the race drivers, along with other aspects such as marketing, heritage costs and power unit development, will not be included. “I think drivers should have been included in the budget cap, whatever that budget cap is,” said Brown. “I think what that would do is it would force teams to make decisions on where they want to spend money. “It wouldn’t necessarily,...
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