Teams call for ‘reform’ over F1 tech-share deals

Off the back of an impressively strong start to the 2022 season for Haas, some of its competitors have questioned whether or not it has benefited too much from its close ties to Ferrari.

The American-owned squad has openly bought as many Ferrari parts as possible in the past, and this year has forged ever closer links through the setting up of a Maranello-hub and the addition of a number of the Italian team’s former staff.

That has prompted fears that Haas could be gaining from shared knowledge, something which teams that work in complete isolation cannot get.

The FIA is fully satisfied, however, that the Haas/Ferrari partnership is above board, but that has not stopped some calling for the regulations to be tightened up in the future.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said: “I think it needs reform, because we want to avoid these kinds of discussions that we have now, and the polemic around the last few days or last few weeks.

"Everybody deserves to perform well, and people should get credit when they've done a good job.

“But some of the job-hopping or entity-hopping on the same premises is just creating arguments that are not necessary for the sport.

"So definitely for us, you know, we have Aston Martin in the wind tunnel that we had two years ago. Quite a shitstorm about that. We have been handling them with the utmost diligence.

“But going forward, if we were to need to compromise our, let's say, income ability, we need to do this, because none of the teams should be able to cooperate in a way that we're seeing today, with some of the teams.”

McLaren boss Andreas Seidl believes that F1 should go hard line on the matter, and stop any form of co-operation between teams.

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes AMG, Frederic