As the global recession continues to bite and the major manufacturers in Formula One continue correspondence with the sport’s governing body regarding cost cutting and suggested budget caps for the 2009 season. Today Renault boss Flavio Briatore confirmed previous reports of salary reductions amongst the high earners within the Anglo-French team.“We are cutting the costs across the whole team, not only my salary but the top people. Myself, Bob Bell and Pat Symonds have taken a cut of twenty percent,” Briatore said. “The second level have taken a cut of ten percent and everybody else has taken a cut of five percent.”
Briatore has been especially vocal against the Brawn Mercedes team in recent times and at Sakhir today there was no exception as he accused the team and its former owners Honda of going against proposed cost cutting measures.
“I don’t see Ross Brawn with 1200 people looking for cost reductions,” the Renault boss stated. “Maybe we are talking about something else. I don’t see this aggression at Honda last year regarding cost cutting, even though they have thirty or forty percent more people than us.”
The Brawn GP team of course has and is making significant cuts in its Brackley-based workforce.
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