There are growing suspicions in the F1 paddock that Red Bull and Aston Martin 168෴澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🌳exceeded last year’s $145m cost cap that was introduced with the aim of improving sustainability and levelling the playing ꧟field. 

F1’s governing body the FIA is set to issue certificates🧸 of compliance with the 2021 financia🃏l regulations next week before the Japanese Grand Prix and said any violation of the budget cap would be “dealt with”. 

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner insisted he is 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“not aware” of any potential breach and expressed confidence in hiꦅs team’s submission.&nb🥃sp;

It marks the latest storm facing F1 after the credibility of the world 💝championship was called into question following the controversial end to last season. 

A mishandled Safety Car period altered the outcome of the 2021 championship and enabled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to overtake 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton to clinch his maiden worldౠ title on the last lap of the Abu Dhabi finale, leaving Mercedes 🅷aggrieved. 

Mercedes team principal Wolff has called on new FIA president Moham✅med Ben Sulayem to take a firm stance on any breach of the spending limit. 

"The cost cap is probably the most important evolution of regulations to keep a level playing field to allow teams that haven't got the full ꦚbudget to catch up and to put a ceiling on the spending of the top teams,”🐭 Wolff told BBC Sport. 

"It is of huge importance for a demonstrat🍃ion that these regulations are polic🎶ed and I have no reason to believe otherwise.

"The FIA, particularly Mohammed, has shown a pretty robust stance on enforcing all kinds of regulations. So if we are talking now about something big, he will show the same integrity a𒆙nd leadership that he has done before.”

In his first press conference since taking office, Ben Sulayem said "if there is any breach, there is no forgiveness in🅺 this” in relation to Hamilton’s no-show at t🌠he FIA’s end-of-season prize-giving gala in Paris last December.