The 2021 season title was decided in contentious fashion, and to nobody’s amusement, the clouds continue to hang over that title win. Recent developments regarding the season have added fuel to fire, and the saga continues to motor on. Both belligerents, Red Bull and Mercedes, are waging their own battles to come up as winners.

The controversy around the title win at Abu Dhabi for Red Bull was bound to be discussed by both teams. But discussions received new energy when there were rumors of a cost cap breach by Red Bull at the start of October. Those rumors have since been confirmed by the FIA.

The FIA confirmed that Red Bull had breached their spending limit by about $1.8 million. The penalty for the same, however, has not yet been finally decided. As per the latest reports, Red Bull continues to be in discussion with the FIA over their breach. While the FIA seems to be suggesting an Accepted Breach Agreement, Red Bull hasn’t agreed to it yet.

Logically, Mercedes has been riled up by the decision-making, or the lack thereof, in the matter. Lewis Hamilton said, “Otherwise, if it’s quite relaxed, if they’re relaxed with these rules, then all the teams will just go over.”

“And spending millions more and then only having a slap on the wrist is obviously not going to be great for the sport. They might as well not have a cost cap for the future [in that case].”

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Lewis’ position is well justified from his and Mercedes’ end. The title was lost by a razor-thin margin. With that context in mind, the breach had a lot of implications.

Twitter catches on to the conversation between Mercedes and FIA on Red Bull

Social media has very keen eyes. A small snippet from the Free Practice broadcast attracted a lot of attention on the microblogging site.

FIA President, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, said “(indistinct) and then they can come to us so we just can’t sit and say to them “No, you come to us”. We also have to show also that initiative to them that we want to reach to them. And I want, I want myself on the table.”

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“I’m sure, I’m optimistic that within the weekend and in the rallying that we’ll come close to each other. [I hope so] I hope so too.”

Twitter has its own views about the short conversation.

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Updates continue to stream in everyday about the cost cap issue. The result will have major implications. What do you think the penalty should be?