Christian Horner has warned that the Formula One title could be decided in the courts if there is no action on the budget ceiling.

The Red Bull boss is among those calling for the FIA to raise the annual spending ceiling - currently $140 million - due to rising global inflation.

He believes that if the ceiling is not raised, some teams will have trouble staying within the stipulated amount and risk punishment.

"The way you design your car is within your control," Horner told . "That's something you create together with your design group. You are in control of your own destiny."

"What we are seeing in the world right now, we are not in control of the inflationary costs that are affecting families around the world. In the UK, inflation is forecast to be 11%."

"This has a direct effect on employees, materials, electricity, products and supplied parts. I genuinely consider it a force majeure situation that the FIA needs to deal with."

Horner suggested that up to half of the 10 teams on the grid could burst the budget ceiling by the end of the 2022 season and risk penalties.

Therefore, he is calling for immediate action to be taken in order to avoid the possibility of the championship being decided in the courts.

"About 50% of the teams will violate the ceiling at the end of the year if things continue as they are. Probably even more," he continued.

"We don't want a championship decided in the courts or in Paris before the FIA. We have six months of the year to solve this, we need to act now."

In addition, Horner fears that some teams could be forced to lay off employees under the current budget ceiling.

"I believe the top teams would have to lay off 200 or 300 people to get remotely close to a solution. Is that right? The problem is that if the budget ceiling totally fails, it will be gone forever."

"We need to find a solution. No one could have predicted this. We lowered the cost ceiling by $35 million during the pandemic and nobody could have predicted the problems we have."