The premise for the calculations are figures from the Organisation for Financial Co-Operation and Improvement (OECD) on common salaries in nations all over the world, in addition to the wage figures of groups in F1.
The highest three groups in F1 have a mean wage stage of £90,000, whereas the identical quantity for Sauber, who’re final on the planet championship this season, is £125,000.
Salaries make up roughly 35-40% of a group’s price range, which suggests Sauber/Audi are in impact working to a decrease price range cap than some other group.
Mattia Binotto, who was final month appointed as chief working and chief technical officer of Audi, informed BBC Sport that it could not be doable for Audi to be aggressive in F1 with out this adjustment.
He stated that Audi had accepted that, as a consequence of adjustments in trade charges being mirrored within the 2026 recalculation, they’d be at a $20m drawback.
The opposite 9 groups are against the budget-cap offset being launched in 2026.
However they’re powerless to have the ability to forestall it taking place as a result of none have signed as much as their F1 contracts for 2026 and so there isn’t any governance construction in place for them to have an effect on the choice.
Nonetheless, there might be additional discussions on the problem within the subsequent two months, after the groups have studied the figures provided to them by the FIA, earlier than a last choice is made on the subsequent world council assembly in December.