How a cost cap breach could decide the F1 world championship

According to the FIA financial regulations, that is a potential outcome should a team breach the cost cap limit, as several expect to.

However, no one knows which penalties from a list of possible sanctions outlined in the rules are likely to be applied, given that there is no precedent.

Those rules contain a long list of breaches, mostly related to teams not reporting their spending accurately or on time, or attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of the Cost Cap…