Crimson Bull had been discovered responsible of overspending the 2021 restrict, and Max Verstappen gained the 2022 F1 championship amid this scandal.
As Crimson Bull’s punishment was contemplated, Brown wrote to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali – he has now refused to apologise regardless of criticism from Christian Horner.
“I stand by my letter,” mentioned Brown. “Whenever you break the principles, whether or not it is technical and monetary, there are lots of other ways to characterise it.
“I do know [that ‘cheating’] is such a robust phrase, however I do not see any distinction between breaking the monetary cap versus having too low of a experience peak, or regardless of the case could also be.
“If it is one thing inside the sporting, monetary, or technical rules, a breach of the principles, I assume you could possibly name it a few various things. Some folks in a extra simplistic method would name it that.”
Crimson Bull reportedly overspent on free lunch for his or her employees, amongst different issues, earlier than Horner criticised his rival group principals for demanding a harsh punishment in an ungainly press convention as he reverse Brown.
“I believed there have been issues that did not make sense,” Brown mentioned about Horner’s defence.
“All of us should handle our staff. We now have our staff coming to us saying this group does this, this group does this on per diems, this group does this on meals, this group does this on accommodations. That then places you in a aggressive place when you’re hiring and retaining.
“So I believe to sort of single out ‘that is the place we spend extra money’ you then’re spending much less cash some place else.
“I believe all of it goes into efficiency. I do not suppose you’ll be able to sort of have remoted chosen components and say it was this half that was out of the cap.”