Red Bull have issued an unequivocal denial of reports that their car may have carried a 'switch' used to alter the RB8's ride-height.
Team boss Christian Horner assures Sky Sports F1 that the World Champions did not break any rules
World Champions Red Bull have issued an unequivocal denial of reports that their car may have used a 'switch' to alter the RB8's ride-height.
Reports in the German media suggested that the RB8 may have used a 'switch' to change its settings between qualifying and race, an allegation that, to use the description of
Sky Sports F1 presenter Martin Brundle, "spread like wildfire" through the Budapest paddock ahead of qualifying for the Hungarian GP.
However, Red Bull boss Christian Horner has dismissed the allegation as 'trivia' and insisted that the team hadn't committed any sort of wrongdoing.
"It really is news to me because no ride height has ever been changed in parc ferme. At all times the car has conformed, no ride height has been changed, manually or with tools or with anything like that," Horner told
Sky Sports F1.
"There's a few bits of trivia floating round at the moment."
The World Champions have been dogged by bad publicity during the last week, with the RB8 reported to the stewards on the morning of last week's Germany GP by the FIA's technical delegate. But Horner scoffed at the suggestion the team feel they are being picked on by the sport's governing body.
"Well I don't think it's so much the FIA, I think the other teams get a bit wound up and then they will tend to go to the FIA with observations and complaints. The FIA have always been very fair and correct with us and any time we've been questioned we've demonstrated that the car 100% complies," Christian commented.
"When you're competitive and you're running at the front it's a consequence of being a front-running team with front-running drivers that others they don't always like it. And that's the consequence of competitiveness at the end of the day."
