After the second practice, Christian Horner said the similarity of the new version of Aston Martin cars to the Red Bull RB18 could lead to a criminal case if the intellectual property leak is proven…
Christian Horner “Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but the problem is that several members of our team moved from Red Bull to Aston Martin over the winter and earlier this year.
Earlier this week, the FIA brought this to our attention by saying: “We see a car that is astonishingly similar to yours. Can we get a list of employees who have left so we can see where they went?” This immediately caused concern.
We know what is allowed. People move from team to team after a mandatory vacation. What engineers carry in their heads is their knowledge, that’s fair. But it is unfair and totally unacceptable for intellectual property to be transferred in this way.
I can’t name specific names, but this could be the basis for a criminal case. Our ideas and developments are the lifeblood of the team, we invest millions of pounds in research and we don’t want our competitors to have that.
We conduct an internal investigation, we have a data protection system in place, we know exactly when and by whom they were viewed, how our software was used.
This is a job for the FIA, they have the necessary access and we rely completely on them to ensure that our intellectual property has not been transferred anywhere and there has been no misuse.”
Source: F1 News
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