Toto Wolff warns F1 cost cap breach would be a ‘heavyweight’ matter

On the eve of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Singapore Grand Prix, the F1 paddock has been rocked by scandal amid reports Red Bull and Aston Martin may have exceeded the $14🤡5m spending limit introduced las☂t year to level the playing field and make the sport more susta⭕inable.
F1’s governing body the FIA is expected to issue certificates of coꩵmpliance with the 2021 financial regulations on October 5, which will reveal whether teams have conformed with the rules or not.
“That's heavyweight, that's massively heavyweight,” Wolff told Sky Sports when asked if this was serious or typical ‘pl🌼ayground politics’ in the F1 paddock.
“We are using use🌟d parts, we are not running what we would want to run, we are not developing what we could be developing. We’ve made more than 40 people redundant that are dearly missed in our organisation.
“It was a huge mammoth project to make the cap. I don’t know how many tens of millions we had to restructure and reprocess to be be♚low the cap, and if 🐽someone has not been doing that, or pushing the boundaries, every million is a massive disadvantage.”

Red Bull boss Christian Horner insisted his team’s F1 cost cap 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:submission fell below the limit and dismissed the mounting talk in the⛄ paddock as “rumours🌟”.
But Wolff said Red Bull🔯 have been the subject of an investigation for months and claimed that one team is “massively over” the 5% threshold - equivalent to around $7m over the cap - for a ‘major breach’.&n🦋bsp;
"It’s funny t𒅌hat Christian says that, because it’s weeks and months that they are being investigated,” Wolff said. “Maybe he doesnඣ’t speak to his CFO.
“All of us hav﷽e been investigated diligently and as far as we understand, there’s a team in [a] minor breach which is more procedural and another team🐈 that is fundamentally massively over.
"That is being looked after, that’s an open secrไet in the paddock.”

Wolff has urged the FIA to take a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“robust stance” in enforcing cost cap regulations because of the domino effect iꦡt has going both into this season and 2023.ꦫ
“I think there’s a governance in place tꦚhat is very solid th🏅at the FIA has set up,” he explained.
“You’re going to be issued a certificate of compliance and then if you’re not compliant, then it goes to the Co𝓀st Cap Adjudication Panel with independent ju༺dges, and they can then choose from these penalties the appropriate one.
“But the crucial part is that if you’re over in 2021, you’re over in 202꧟2. That means tha🧸t you have an advantage in 2023.
“If it’s true they’ve homologated a lightweight ౠchassis this year, they may use it next year. It’s a real cascade of events that can be influential in all three championships.”

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