Lotus and Force India say they weren't directly approached about chance to tyre test

Lotus and Force India have claimed they received no direct invitation from Pirelli to complete a tyre test amid the ongoing controversy over Mercedes' 'secret' running in Barcelona.

While Red Bull and Ferrari were the only two teams to formally protest the test to the Monaco stewards, Boullier made clear that Lotus were also not happy with the incident - particularly as it appeared to contravene F1's Sporting Regulations. "Our position is there is a sporting regulation in place, there is even a testing agreement in place between the teams," the Frenchman added. "Red Bull and Ferrari did a protest, I don't think it's necessary we have to keep going to the stewards after they have been made aware about this so let's see what comes out. "You can gain any advantage by doing this and if they did it I think it's because mainly they think it could have an advantage, yes of course. "But it's more about the breach of the sporting code as well we're talking about." Boullier added: "Whatever permission is given it should be allowed to everybody or at least to make it aware to everybody and not testing on your own somewhere."