Red Bull Fined $7 Million for Overspending F1 Cost Cap

Red Bull Fined $7 Million for Overspending F1 Cost Cap
McLaren CEO Zak Brown (L) and Red Bull team principal Christian Horner take part in a news conference at the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 22, 2022. Eric Gay/AP Photo
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MEXICO CITY—Fancy catering and energy drinks. Social security contributions and medical treatments for an employee that survived their illness.

Those are some of the expenditures Red Bull claimed Friday it improperly misrepresented when submitting its 2021 financial report. It led to a breach of Formula One’s spending cap, set at $145 million for its debut season, and penalties handed down by the series governing body.