Mercedes had to slow their development due to the budget capWolff said his team had to make compromises in order to keep their spending within the cap. “So we know exactly that we’re spending three and a half million a year in parts that we bring to the car and then you can see what difference it makes to spend another 500,000 – it would be a big difference.” “And we can see that there is two top teams that are just about the same, but there is another team that spends more.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free “We obviously monitor closely which parts are being brought to the track from the top teams every single race, ’21 season and ’22 season,” he said.

Wolff said the information Mercedes had gathered by observing their rivals indicated one team’s spending was out of line with the others. Horner raised doubt over the accusations levelled at his team, asking how a competitor could have knowledge of their finances. It’s cornerstone of the new regulations and I very much hope that all the teams have done that.” For us it’s important that the cost cap is being complied with. So everything else is all chatter until then. Report: Red Bull demand rivals withdraw ‘fictitious, defamatory’ claims they broke cost cap“For me, I’m 100% sure that the FIA is going to do the right thing. “On Wednesday there’s going to be certificates of compliance that are going to be issued or not and then if somebody has not complied, there’s a process and a governance that’s in place. In response to Horner’s claim the comments made about his team were “defamatory”, Wolff called the exchanges between team principals over the row “noise”.

It followed reports the FIA, which is completing its assessment of data submitted by teams on how much they spent last year, has found two teams in breach of the Financial Regulations, which were introduced last year.

His opposite number at Red Bull, Christian Horner, yesterday criticised rivals for alleging his team exceeded the budget cap during 2021.

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