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Red Bull's team principal, Christian Horner, has accused Toto Wolff of 'hugely defamatory, fictitious claims' and threatened legal action against Mercedes.

He insisted he believes his team were within the budget cap set at $145m last year and adamant he would be willing to take action against the comments from rival teams. When the budget cap was imposed it was intended to be the first step in creating a level playing field in the sport, allowing the smaller team to begin the process of closing toward the big three. “I have full confidence in Mohammed, in the way he has conducted himself to this point in terms of being strict and being clear with the rules,” Hamilton said. That said, any breach has yet to be confirmed and the FIA will not comment while it makes its assessment with the conclusions on the teams’ cost submissions expected on Wednesday. Leclerc led the way on the final runs and Hamilton, pushing hard, could not match him but Verstappen, as the last man racing, was on a lap challenging for pole only to be told to pit. A failure to do so would have resulted in him starting at the back of the grid.

There is growing speculation Red Bull and Aston Martin may have exceeded F1's budget cap in 2021. The financial data will be released next week.

In August, Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto said: "The financial regulations can make differences between teams in the way they are interpreting and somehow executing it. Alleged breaches of the financial regulations, if any, will be dealt with according to the formal process set out in the regulations." Material sporting penalties include all of the above as well as exclusion and suspension from championships.

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Christian Horner has hit out at rival F1 teams for making "fictitious claims" about Red Bull, amid speculation the FIA will next week announce that two ...

"It keeps the competition closer together, it stops manufacturers leaving this business because it is just too expensive. "It is fictitious and we are extremely disappointed. "It is complete rubbish, we heard from the FIA 10 days ago asking for some clarifications, as you would do in a standard audit. Horner added: "The (comments from other teams) are hugely defamatory, and we take umbrage to them. I have no idea what the outcome of our rivals' submissions are, or their accounting treatment or so on, so I would be intrigued to know where their source of information for these fictitious claims have come from." "How on earth do they have this information?