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Zak Brown has doubled down on his comments made in a letter earlier this season to FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem, following Red Bull's breach of the Formula 1 cost cap. The McLaren CEO wrote a letter accusing Red Bull of 'cheating' following their minor breach of the $145 million cost cap. It later emerged that the team had breached the cost cap in four main areas, with Red Bull team boss Christian Horner refuting any claim that the team gained any advantage from the breach. When asked about whether he would still stand by the comments made prior to the information about the breach, Brown doubled down: "I stand by my letter." "I think when you break the rules, whether it's technical or financial, I think you can [have] many different ways to characterise it," he told media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "I know it's a strong word, but I don't see any difference between breaking the financial cap versus having too low...

Former Formula 1 team boss Eddie Jordan has urged Toto Wolff to "stand up and take" criticism in the wake of Mercedes' difficult start to the new campaign. The German manufacturer fell from the top of the stand ings last season and whilst victory at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at the end of the campaign provided optimism of renewing a rivalry with Red Bull this term, the W14 has failed to live up to expectations. Lewis Hamilton was able to secure a second-place finish at the Australian Grand Prix to clinch Mercedes ' first podium of the campaign, yet the gulf separating the Silver Arrows and Red Bull ensures the race for solutions continues. Team Principal Wolff was forthright in his criticism of the W14 at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix with his dismay backed by Hamilton, something that hasn't settled well with Jordan. Viewed by others: ...