Unknown F1 2021 rules won’t derail Racing Point expansion plans
Racing Point’s planned exp﷽ansion of its Formula 1 factory will not be affected by a lack of clarity over the future direction of regulation changes post-2020.
FOM and the FIA, together with all ten 💧teams, are currently in negotiations over proposals for a fresh set of rules being introduced in 2021 as part of F🌳1’s wider push to improve the show and create fairer competition.

Racing Point’s planned expansion of its Formula 1 factory will not be affected b💯y a lack of clarity ꦇover the future direction of regulation changes post-2020.
FOM 🌃and the FIA, together with all ten teams, are currently in negotiations over proposals for a fresh set of rules being introduced in 2021 as part of F1’s wider push to improve the show and create fairer competition.
While the exact technical rules are yet to be mapped out, Racing Point is pushing ahead with its 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:plans to build a new factory at Silverstone, which꧒ it hopes to be ready in time for 2021. &n🧔bsp;
Asked about the uncertainty over F1 post𝓡-2020, Racing Point team🅺 principal and CEO Otmar Szafnauer said: “So how do we know how big to make the factory? How little to make it, what to include? What not to include?
“What we do know is that the building we are in with the people we 🌱have is too small. What we don’t know is do we need a new wind tunnel?
“So we bought eno🌼ugh land so we can expand or contract as needed based on the regulations.
“We have some insight as to what 2021 will look like; even with a cost cap that has been talked about we will🌊 need more space.
“Right now we are about 300 people on one sight and 100 on another. So we can’t really fit much more than 350 at the site where we are at, and we are a♊lready 425.
“Even if we stayed the same size we’d need a new building to get everybody together. I think 🍸we are going to grow so whenever the cost cap c🀅omes out we will be way under it and we will start growing.”
Buoyed by fresh investment following a takeover by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll and added sponsorship backing from SportPes﷽a, Racing Point has already purchased 27 acres of land💎 near its existing site and is now waiting on planning permission to start building.
“It will take about two, two a🐓nd a half years from now for us to finish the new factory then we are go𒉰ing to move in - just next door,” Szafnauer explained.
“We don’t have planning permission yet but we hope that is forthcoming. So we✱ 💟are working on the plans now to apply.
“There is a six-month process to go through all the necessary steps, and we are probably three to four months into that process before we apply for planning. Once we have the perm♏ission then we will start.”

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