The FIA has no claims against Aston Martin, a special federation inspection has visited the team’s Silverstone base and revealed no facts of unauthorized use of other people’s intellectual property in the development of an improved version of the AMR22 car .
This is the gist of the response the FIA Red Bull Racing gave to the official inquiry request, and we’ve talked about it.
But the federation’s findings failed to convince Red Bull; Here is how the team reacted to this verdict: “We have read the FIA statement with interest. While imitating someone else’s engineering solutions is the highest form of flattery, any reproduction of them must, of course, comply with the FIA’s “reverse engineering” rules.
However, if someone else’s intellectual property has been used, it should clearly be flagged as a violation of the rules and cause serious concern.
“If you order your team to make a very similar clone of our car, that’s a really interesting story,” said Christian Horner, Milton Keynes team leader. – Of course in the winter a few people (formerly with Red Bull Racing) have changed jobs and you have no control over what they carry around in their heads.
But if intellectual property has fallen into the wrong hands, that is a very serious concern.”
An Aston Martin spokesperson confirmed that they “have provided the FIA technicians with detailed information about the upgrade of the car. They analyzed the data and reviewed the processes we used to develop these updates and confirmed that this is all the result of independent work performed legally in accordance with the requirements of the technical regulations.”
Judging by the reaction of the Red Bull leadership, it can be assumed that new protests will follow.
Helmut Marko, a motorsports consultant for an Austrian company, said in particular on Sky Deutschland: “We need to find out how this incredibly accurate copy was made. Copying in itself is not prohibited, but we must bear in mind that seven employees are with us. that Dan Fallows, our former head of aerodynamics, has moved to Aston Martin for a disproportionate salary.
We continue to analyze certain facts. There are indications that our information has been copied. Is it possible to make such a detailed copy of our machine without documentation? †
Source: F1 News
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