The FIA denied reports that up to three F1 teams have breached the 2022 cost cap, amid an ongoing investigation into their 🌞fin🃏ances.

One suggestion is that teams categorise crucial employees in other areas of their business - for example, road cars or boat🃏s - to make them exempt from the cost cap, then use their expertise to develop their F1 car.

Mercedes team princip🌞al Wolff wants to see this issue policed: "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 attri♋buted.

"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.

"In the real ꧟world, it's quite a challenge because we are making revenue and money with our engineering projects. 

“That means we cannot assi💫gn a person who is working in F1, not evꦅen for a minute, into non-F1. 

“But I think it's the right thi👍ng to do for the sport to say 'this is F1 and thi🌼s is not F1'. 

“𒁏The 🔥moment someone spends 10 seconds on an F1 project you should be fully in F1. That's the way we need to go."

Wolff said about 🙈the ongoing auditing process into the 2022 cost cap: "They came back with tonnes of questions to lots of teams and that sh✃ows how robust the process is, which is good.

"Strong auditors are beneficial for F1. We need to stop any kind of unintentional or intentional breach of the co🃏st cap. It's like technical and sporting re𒅌gulations.”