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Amid talks of 2022 budget cap breaches, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says the FIA “came back with tonnes of questions to lots of teams”.
There has been a lot of speculation in the media regarding rumoured 2022 budget cap breaches. The FIA has since issued a statement saying that the audit process is not finished yet.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says that as part of this process, the FIA has been in constant communication with the teams.
“They came back with tonnes of questions to lots of teams and that shows how robust the process is, which is good,” the Austrian told Sky Sports.
“Strong auditors are beneficial for F1. We need to stop any kind of unintentional or intentional breach of the cost cap. It’s like technical and sporting regulations.”
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Wolff added it is very important for the FIA to thoroughly scrutinise other projects being run by F1 teams, as those are the areas where somebody might try to ‘work’ the budget cap.
“The big teams have thousands of people and various projects, commercial and non-commercial. For us it’s a bit easier because we have everything in one entity.
“The employees are all in one place and you can see where they have been attributed. It becomes more complex when you have more variety of subsidiaries.
“I’ve never been shy of saying with the 2026 regulations we should get rid of all of that overall,” Wolff concluded.
