McLaren boss Zak Brown believes that Formula 1 should introduce a driver salary cap in order to make teams more sustainable.
Driver salaries and marketing expenses fall outside of the $145 million cost cap introduced this year.
Speaking this week, the American said that such a proposal would be likely to receive support from team bosses within the sport.
“I think all the team bosses supported putting in a driver salary cap," he said. “I think you have that in the majority of other sports around the world.
"I think Formula 1 needed to, and is changing, its financial profile to make these racing teams sustainable.
“I thought that the drivers should have gone into the [budget] cap in the first place."
Brown gave two ideas for how such a measure could be implemented.
“You can do what has now been proposed and have a $30-million cap and decide how you want to spend that amongst your two drivers," he added.
“Another area I would actually have liked to have seen was to have put the drivers into the initial salary cap, whatever that salary cap is I think you would raise it, and then give the team flexibility on how do you want to spend your money."
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