Alpine believes some of the top teams are 'exploiting' the cost cap by juggling staff between F1 and non-F1 projects.
The big players have other racing programmes or non-motorsport technology departments into which they have moved personnel as they’ve downsized to meet the requirements of the cap.
"I think when everyone's the right size, you lose that little bit,” he said. “I think what some of the other teams are now doing, the bigger teams, is they're looking to exploit or have a better understanding of where there's some loopholes or some organisational changes you can make to actually stuff more people under that budget cap. And we're not there yet.
“And we're not quite there yet. So I think that advantage of being right at the beginning does dissipate."Photo by: FIA Pool "We've started that," he revealed."We have a group, but it's tiny, like two people. We're building a ski brace, there's three projects on the go, including parts for the Alpine car.
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