Toto Wolff claims that suspicions of Red Bull well exceeding its budget cap in 2021 have been an "open secret" in the paddock among F1 teams. An intrigue that started with a rumor on Friday in Singapore has swelled in just a matter of hours into a potential crisis involving Formula 1's leading team. The FIA, which started its financial audit of the teams' 2021 accounts last March, is due to reveal next week, perhaps as early as Monday, who passed and who failed the certification process. But there now appears to be little doubt that two teams – Red Bull and Aston Martin – transgressed F1's stringent budget cap regulations, although the case involving Lawrence Stroll's outfit...
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