Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says it is now an"open secret" in the Formula 1 paddock that one team was"fundamentally massively" over the cost cap last year.After a day of fast developments in the Singapore Grand Prix paddock, as speculation focused on Aston Martin and Red Bull having potentially not complied with the 2021 cost cap limit, Wolff did not hold back in his views about how serious the matter was.
"As a matter of fact, we all of us have been investigated diligently. And as far as we understand, there's a team in minor breach, which is more procedural, and another team that is fundamentally massively over and that is that is being still looked after.Wolff said that the issue of a cost cap breach was not something that should be brushed aside because his team had sacrificed car performance, and had to lose staff, to ensure it complied with the limit that was in place.
He says that if Red Bull overspent last year, it could carry benefits through this year and into 2023.
Seems like Toto is getting pressure from upper management. First he cried about proposing, driver hurting their back and now this.
Redbull cheating again I'm not surprised haha
SoreLoser
Wolff could be 100% correct and it wouldn't make him any less insufferable and vile. This guy has singlehandedly made F1 a perniciously toxic, malignant community re: team/fan culture. The frequency with which he publicly politicks/gossips/muckrakes is nauseating.
Yes that was the Mercedes F1 AMG Petronas Team 🏁
Is that like the floor lies Toto? New regs didn't affect RB. Just as Horner said they wouldn't. This is just Toto showing the world he really Auckland at losing these days.
Haas? 😂
Yes rumors are usually credible. What was the outcome of the one regarding RB and the floor plank?
Didn’t Mercedes use about 100 engines last year. They seemed to take an engine penalty for the last 6 races both drivers
We lost last year, so we’re going too cry. Because all those years Mercedes were doing it on the up and up 🙄 They did so many things that weren’t legal, like the steering wheel and wheel bs. Luckily it was caught on camera so they couldn’t use it.
mirulws44 TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE RBR MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND PENALISED ACCORDINGLY. ENOUGH END THIS CHEATING NOW.‼
What’s funny is they are probably over too but will plead that it’s ok if it’s lesser amount. 🤣
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mirulws44 WWF1
I bet it was Aston Martin. No one said anything because they were going backwards. Who knew gold screws weren't the way to go?
cultLH right now
Ma se poes
Why doesn't the FIA step in and shut him up? They should start fining him every time he stirs up shit with the rumor mill. I mean really 'Open secret?' That's your go to Toto? Maybe next time he'll tell us he heard it while he was in a bathroom stall in the paddock.
Toto is a real joke…..he’s showing his true colors now he’s not dominating the sport.🤮🤮
Typical Toto. Crying about the one team on the paddock and its principal his power dynamic cannot control and got owned by in two successive years.
That’s the pro of having a pawn in FIA HQ. Funny how these rumours always comes before a Grand Prix and out Mercedes camp. Flexi Floors? OMG cheaters!!! Cap issues? Red Bull buys a world championship!!! Hilarious
If you have some integrity you dont comment until the auditor’s reports and certification is ready. This gives fuel to speculation. Not very noble.
If cost cap is breached, then in which area? Was that even part of cost cap?
What a massive shit stirrer
If it’s true that RB was then they should be thrown out of F1. I wondered why RB was so quick last year because previous years they were nowhere near Mercs then last year they suddenly started beating them regular
Toto 'let's accuse Red Bull of cheating every race and see if it sticks' Wolff is at it again!
I don't care for the way Mercedes projects fiction politics to paint eyeryones sky a color they want it to be...we are sick of that BS here in the USA...
Obviously its the season to spread crap because you cant match your rivals
Flexi floor 2.0
Mercedes: *wins 7 championships as a team* Also Mercedes: *complains as soon as someone beats them and says it is bad for the sport*
What a invredible negative tantrum Toto had around him. It’s all unfair unless Mercedes has the advantage. He has been in the lead for 8 seasons and going all out. Act up, sad talker 🤫
I'm gonna laugh so hard if it's Aston Martin god I hate Aston Martin
Lol imagine if it's Mercedes
He’s also cheating. But on his wife. Got exposed today.
Stop declaring everyone else is cheating just because you didn't have a 2 year head start to the new regs
Waaaah! Everybody cheating but me!!
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