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Championship row explodes in bitter F1 war - CtrlF.XYZ

Championship row explodes in bitter F1 war

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Lewis Hamilton says the FIA indispensable travel down heavy connected immoderate teams recovered to person breached Formula 1's outgo headdress successful 2021, suggesting that it could person played a relation successful deciding the satellite championship.

Max Verstappen won the satellite rubric successful a controversial decorativeness successful Abu Dhabi, but his Red Bull squad is astatine the centre of speculation that it was 1 of 2 teams that overspent successful 2021.

Red Bull powerfully denies the allegations, with squad brag Christian Horner calling them "hugely defamatory."

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The FIA has been auditing each squad to corroborate they were beneath the $226 cardinal outgo cap, its findings were owed retired connected Wednesday but person been delayed until adjacent Monday.

It's been suggested that the study wouldn't person been delayed if each teams were compliant.

Hamilton, who mislaid the title to Verstappen connected the last thigh of the season, revealed his frustrations astatine seeing Red Bull get with updates to their car that Mercedes couldn't afford.

The 37-year-old says those recovered to person overspent indispensable beryllium severely punished.

"For sure, due to the fact that it would enactment successful question our values, the integrity of the sport," helium said.

"I retrieve past year, arsenic a driver, you are ever asking for updates. I retrieve astatine Silverstone we got our past update, and it was worthy astir 3 tenths. I'm beauteous definite it outgo little than a million… but possibly implicit clip it would outgo much successful presumption of being built.

"I retrieve aft that needing much updates, but past seeing trucks from those guys [Red Bull], updates continuing to get connected the different car. I was thinking, 'Jeez, it's gonna beryllium hard to bushed them successful the title if they support bringing updates'."

Hamilton pointed retired that adjacent 1 much upgrade to his Mercedes could person changed the title result.

"It's truthful integral to the improvement race. If we had different fractional a cardinal to spend, we would person been successful a antithetic presumption astatine immoderate of the pursuing races if we had brought different floor, which we could person easy done," helium said.

"But that's not the sanction of the crippled and I'm grateful our squad is precise strict and abides [to the rules]. The mode we work, they did an astonishing job. It needs to beryllium taken seriously."

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