Is this just a tidying up of loose ends, or has someone been caught with their finger in the pie?Wouter wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:35 amhttps://the-race.com/formula-1/how-fias ... -loophole/
.How FIA’s trying to close an F1 team ‘side project’ loophole
By Mark Hughes
The FIA has issued a new technical directive to tackle potential grey areas around Formula 1 teams’ non-F1 engineering activities.
The newly-imposed TD45 comes into immediate effect and is backdated to January 1 of this year.
It is described by the FIA as both a technical directive and a cost cap admin clarification
which addresses the issue of non-F1 activities costs.
Many of the top teams have non-F1 engineering divisions – notably Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, Aston Martin and McLaren.
The new TD clarifies how the FIA will interpret the costs of any technology or IP created by these non-F1 groups which is subsequently used by the F1 team, and makes clear the value of any such instances will be included in the cost cap. This is an attempt to close a possible loophole in the cost cap regulations.
I do not see how a rule can be backdated?