The technical director of Renault F1 Marcin Budkovski assured that the importance of his transition to the French team from the FIA ​​is exaggerated, since most of the knowledge obtained by him in the FIA ​​can not affect the development of the current F1 cars.

Transition technical director FIA Budkovski in Renault F1 in October last year provoked a scandal. Marcin had access to the technical activities and innovations of the participants of the championship, and the rivals of the French team feared that the Polish specialist would give new employers their secrets.

Who is Budkovski and why did his transition make so much noise?

Initially Budkovski was supposed to start working at Enstone in early 2018, but due to protests from other teams, Renault extended his mandatory leave until April 1. Only after that he officially started to work.

"I think this case is too inflated," Budkovsky told Motorsport.com, referring to the F1 reaction to his transition. - Yes, I can understand the concern of the teams, but frankly, it happened for two reasons.

First - then in F1 there was a period of calm, not too much happened, so this business seemed more significant than it really was. And it also served as a tool for some teams, which introduced some contradictions. "

Despite the fact that Budkovski had access to the teams' databases and information about their development, he noted that the speed of progress in modern F1 is so great that his knowledge quickly depreciated: "I notified them about everything in three months and we expressed our opponents even more respect when they agreed to extend my forced leave for three months. It's not for me to judge whether these terms are sufficient, but I have no qualms about it.

In F1 everything changes so quickly, the information quickly becomes obsolete. Decisions last season, caused the hype? Most of this in any case was banned - all these exotic suspension systems, all this went under the ban. So the controversial decisions to which I potentially had access, in fact, this year are no longer used on machines. "