F1 teams keep bonus despite Japan GP cancellation

F1 teams are set for a $1.2M cost cap bonus "thanks to the late Japanese Grand Prix cancellation which has cut the schedule back to 22 races." This change in the race number has "triggered a clause in F1's cost cap rules that means team will still get an extra spending allowance in the cost cap for the event going ahead," even though it has been ditched and they will not have to "face the expenditure of going." For this season, F1's budget gap is based around a $145M limit "if there are 21 races per season, with Article 2.3 of F1's Technical Regulations stating that for every extra event added teams will be allowed another" $1.2M. That means "for this year's originally scheduled 23-race calendar, the limit will be" $147.4M (MOTORSPORT, 8/31).