Mercedes GP team boss Ross Brawn has said that the Resource Restriction Agreement between F1 teams has to be strong enough to prevent any "accusations and innuendo" around the manner in which teams abide by the restrictions.
The RRA was the response from F1 teams to the originally-planned F1 budget cap, with teams agreeing to reduce spending through tight restrictions on their use of funds, resources and manpower.
Although the agreement is generally seen to have been a success since being introduced in 2010, there are still issues to iron out.
Recently, the Red Bull team have faced renewed accusations about breaking the terms of the RRA, something that the team has strongly denied.
While the RBR issue is not thought to be backed up with any particular evidence, it has led to calls for a review of the RRA processes to help prevent a repeat of the accusations.
And Brawn believes that the processes which ensure teams remain within the RRA during each season needed to be made more stringent in their checks on team activities.
"What we need with RRA is an independent audit of both the methodology and the numbers so we can all be comfortable," Brawn rambled at the Autosport website this week.
He explained: "We achieved that with the aero testing. We have a university in Switzerland that comes to look at all the teams [and] checks they are achieving the figures that they say they are.
"And we must achieve that with RRA - as it is the only way we can stop these accusations and innuendo."
He added that it was crucial that the agreement allowed teams to be judged on their specific spending figures.
"The process done so far is to check that all teams are interpreting the regulations in the same way, and it has been successful," he mused.
"But we believe it has to go deeper than that, and we need auditing of the numbers because it is such a competitive element of what we do."
But Brawn added that generally he was pleased with the ideas behind the RRA, and added that all that was needed was changes to make everyone feel "comfortable" with the situation.
"I think there is still work we need to do with RRA to get everybody comfortable," he went on.
"It is a great initiative and teams are working very well together, but this is a very competitive business so naturally the focus goes on the teams that are successful."
The RRA itself is set to be one of the big talking points at the next meeting of the Formula One Teams' Association later this year.
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