• *Tagger*@lemmy.world
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    Not wanting to take too much away from max and red bull but I do wonder how well other teams would be doing it they had also ignored the cost cap.

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      Mate, let it go. Ultimately is was 400k I believe?

      The decreased wind tunnel-time and CFD-time do have an impact, so I can’t imagine any advantage from that 400k to still be lasting.

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        The 400k is a lie. It was over a million. The 400k figure was if they had applied for a tax break they didn’t apply for and had been granted it.

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          If you are correcting figures one way, you have to correct them both ways. That is how financial auditors always work.

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              I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn’t matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.

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                Ah, okay, that makes sense I guess. Seems weird from a lay point of view, but if that’s the industry standard.

                Thanks for explaining.

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      Strange way of saying “I wonder how well other teams would be doing if they had also nailed the new regulations to perfection”