The Woking-based team is one of several F1 squads that looks set to breach this year’s $141.2m cost cap limit ($1.2m added to the original $140m cost cap due to a 22nd race added to the calendar), and does not want to commit to any more significant spending until it knows what extra allowances teams are going to get.
Those concerns mean it has been forced to put the handbrake on upgrades for now, even though rival teams are continuing to push on with significant new components.
