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[McLaren Fan]

From F1 Live:

More details about the F1 teams' cost regulation agreement has emerged, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport.

The magazine claims that the precise details are a closely guarded secret, but that one measure is to cap the number of team staff travelling to Grand Prix from next year to 45 people.

This will have consequences: for example, at present, many personal physios double-up as the holder of his drivers' pit boards, but in 2010 and beyond he would be included among the 45 team staff.

Auto Motor und Sport also said team expenditure, excluding driver and upper management pay and marketing, will not exceed 100m euros in 2010, and 50m in 2011.

Factory-based staff is to be capped at 350 personnel per team in 2010, decreasing to 280 in 2011, with more staff per team allowed if less money is spent on buying components from external suppliers.

© CAPSIS International
Source: GMM

[Frosty]

Don't the current factory staff numbers currently stand at around 1000 for a large team like McLaren? Guess there are going to be some large lay offs hopefully McLaren can move some of its team over to the new Road car manufacturing even if it's a completely separate company. Then maybe that road car company can do some consultancy work every now and again

[Juliet P]

It's just completely unenforceable! What do they propose, FIA spies peering over fences at the factories counting heads? Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

#You're busting my balls, Max...#

[7UpJordan]

Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

Maybe that's what Hans Blix's next job will be.

Hans: Come on Mr Di Montezemolo, don't lie to me about your Weapons of Mass destruction, there's no need to wreck another plasma screen TV over it!

[darwin dali]

Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

Maybe that's what Hans Blix's next job will be.

Hans: Come on Mr Di Montezemolo, don't lie to me about your Weapons of Mass destruction, there's no need to wreck another plasma screen TV over it!

[darwin dali]

It's just completely unenforceable! What do they propose, FIA spies peering over fences at the factories counting heads? Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

#You're busting my balls, Max...#

You got balls?

[Juliet P]

It's just completely unenforceable! What do they propose, FIA spies peering over fences at the factories counting heads? Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

#You're busting my balls, Max...#

You got balls?

Hehe - only metaphorical ones... I guess you haven't seen Team America?

[darwin dali]

It's just completely unenforceable! What do they propose, FIA spies peering over fences at the factories counting heads? Or maybe Hans Blix style inspections?

#You're busting my balls, Max...#

You got balls?

Hehe - only metaphorical ones... I guess you haven't seen Team America?

Phew! I already thought 'those damn shemales are EVERYwhere these days!'

[McLaren Fan]

It would be interesting to see how these Orwellian ideas would be put into practice against a team like McLaren. Does McLaren Racing getting parts from another company in the McLaren Group as doing business with an outside company, and how could these numbers be policed accurately?

[darwin dali]

It would be interesting to see how these Orwellian ideas would be put into practice against a team like McLaren. Does McLaren Racing getting parts from another company in the McLaren Group as doing business with an outside company, and how could these numbers be policed accurately?

Sheer impossible. But weirder things have happened in F1

[vaptin]

so, they're gonna limit, but will this mean restirictions are lessoned? The only reason they have such stringent resitrictions is to bring the grid closer - with max cost caps ( ) the cars will be in the same league anyway.

Any what about the damn testing ban?

[Jabberwocky]

I find it all very strange. they are reducing the number of people who really need job's, as in the normal floor staff. where as all the managers are not covered in in the wages cap. However I suppose if your already running at bare bone levels for machinests a senior manager is not going to last long.

Maybe it will go the other way. Maybe machinests will end up as CEO of milling machine number 2 night shift. so pay does not come out of the budget cap.