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The behind the scenes war between McLaren and Red Bull continues. The Austrians' team principal and CEO, Christian Horner has now responded to McLaren's chief Zak Brown's 'challenge' to file a protest with the FIA amidst alleged suppositions of irregularities.
It is rumoured that Red Bull have conducted an investigation using thermal cameras that prove that McLaren are doing something particular in terms of cooling, as it is, according to the Austrian outfit, impossible to achieve that level of cooling simply from the airflow.
Zak Brown then referred to 'one team' in particular, taking on an approach of making 'cheating claims' to destabilise the Woking-based team and said that the team in question should lodge a formal protest with the FIA and added: “The protest fee needs to be high enough for a team to think twice about whether it wants to appeal."
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Horner: 'That's just how F1 is'
After the race in Miami, Horner spoke to media including GPblog about the matter.
"Of course in Formula One there is always going to be questions that are raised. They did exactly the same about the front suspension on our car last year."
"It's inevitable when you're running at the front as we have for the last few years, you always come under more scrutiny. So that's part and parcel of Formula 1."
"And in many respects for the FIA, all of the teams do the vast majority of the work because of course their resource is far greater and there's always a competitor analysis going on across all of the teams."
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