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Publication date: 30 august 2020
Formula 1 could have four Red Bull cars on the track next year to go with all four Mercedes cars, that’s the caveat if Racing Point’s RP20 is deemed legal.
By putting a pink Mercedes, as it has been dubbed, on the track this season, Racing Point’s 2020 challenger raised his eyebrows across the paddock.
However, it was only Renault that protested against the car, specifically the brake lines.
Those were declared illegal from a sporting point of view because from this season all teams have to design their own ducts and the F1 stewards declare that those of the RP20 are Mercedes design.
Landed 15 points and fined 400,000 euros, Racing Point appealed the verdict as did Ferrari and Renault.
Since then, the latter has requested the withdrawal of his appeal. Ferrari, however, goes ahead with his.
One person keeping a close eye on the proceedings is Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.
Red Bull owns two Formula 1 teams, Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri, with the latter taking several of the parts not included in the list, parts that teams can buy from other teams, from the senior team.
However, if Racing Point wins the appeal, Horner says Red Bull could go so far as to put four “identical cars” on the starting grid.
“From Red Bull’s perspective, it’s important to us because we just want to know what is allowed and what is not,” said the Briton.
“Red Bull owns 100 percent of two teams. There are no other two teams in that situation.
“Of course, if the Racing Point model is allowed, we will go down that route and present four identical cars next year.
“But I think that in what was agreed and in what is presented and in what will be voted on, that has been addressed.”
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However, the threat from Red Bull may only be words, given that the FIA has already stated that it will take drastic measures to copy next season.
“We plan on very little notice to introduce some amendments to the 2021 sporting regulations that will prevent this from becoming the norm,” said Nikolas Tombazis, director of single-seater affairs at the FIA.
“This will prevent teams from using extensive parts of photos to copy complete parts from other cars like Racing Point has done.
“We will continue to accept individual components to be copied in local areas, but we don’t want the whole car to be fundamentally a copy of another car.”
Horner acknowledges that Tombazis’ comments are the reason Renault decided to withdraw its appeal.
He said: “I am sure that Renault should be confident that it will be dealt with in the next presentation of the regulation for 2021 onwards.
“Otherwise, I cannot believe that they would have withdrawn that appeal. I have not had any conversation with Renault to understand the reason for the withdrawal, but one can only assume that they should be confident that this issue will be fully addressed. “
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