The FIA won’t launch the findings of its audit into System One’s 2021 finances cap spending till Monday.

Final 12 months’s cap has grow to be the largest speaking level within the sport, with rumours Pink Bull and Aston Martin overspent the $140 million restrict final 12 months gaining traction within the build-up to the Singapore Grand Prix.

The FIA had been because of subject certificates of compliance to the groups who did adhere to the finances cap on Wednesday, however they’ve pushed again that deadline because of the complexity of the audit.

It means the controversy will linger into this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Whether it is discovered {that a} group did overspend final 12 months, the FIA will then enter a course of to find out a sanction, which might vary from a monetary penalty to, in essentially the most excessive circumstances, exclusion or suspension from the world championship.

Because the finances cap was launched final 12 months this may be unprecedented territory for the FIA when it comes to handing out a penalty.

Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen received the championship final 12 months and may wrap up his second title at Suzuka this weekend.

A press release launched on Wednesday stated: “The FIA informs that the conclusion of the evaluation of the 2021 monetary submissions of the System 1 groups and the next launch of Certificates of Compliance to the Monetary Laws won’t happen on Wednesday, 5 October.

“The evaluation of economic submissions is an extended and sophisticated course of that’s ongoing and will probably be concluded to allow the discharge of the Certificates on Monday, 10 October. The Monetary Laws have been agreed unanimously by all Rivals, who’ve labored positively and collaboratively with the FIA Value Cap Administration all through this primary 12 months beneath the Monetary Laws.”

The FIA additionally moved to make clear that members of different groups shouldn’t have any information of rival groups’ audits — Mercedes boss Toto Wolff angered Pink Bull’s Christian Horner when he prompt it was an “open secret” one group considerably overspent final 12 months.

“As beforehand communicated, there was vital and unsubstantiated hypothesis and conjecture in relation to this matter, and the FIA reiterates that till it’s finalised, no additional data will probably be offered. The FIA additionally reiterates that any suggestion that FIA personnel have disclosed delicate data is equally baseless.”