Visa Cash App RB CEO Peter Bayer has downplayed concerns that his team’s close relations♎hip with Red Bull will give them an unfair competitive advant💫age in 2024.

RB launched their 2024 F1 challenger last weeke♚nd, s𒉰howing clear similarities to the dominant Red Bull RB19 from 2023.

McLaren CEO Zak Brown has been vocal in RB’s close alliance with Red Bull, calling for significant regulation changes to sto൩p there being a “conflict of interest”.

He said: "I think the A-B team is a real problem moving forward. I think co-ownership, you 🐲don't really have that ꦜin any other sport, and I think that provides a lot of conflict of interest.

“So now that we have a budget cap we need to be really a sport of total fairness and I think any time you have an entit♌y that owns two teams, or an A and B relationship, I think it really starts to compromise the integrity of sporting fairness.

“That's something that really needไs to be tackled.”

Bayer 🌜has hit back at Brown, and any other critics.

“One of the first things you lea♐rn in Formula 1 is that the easiest way to become unpopular is to be successful,” he told RacingNews365.

“As long as you’re last, people will not even realise you'♔re there. As soon as you start knocking on the door, they will throw everything at you that they can.

“I’m coming from the FIA and I know how much s⛎crutiny there is on all of the teams.

“Certainly, there is even more scrutiny when it comes to the teams working close🌊r togethe▨r. The rules are very clear.

“You might have seen the statement of the FIA, when they l𝓀ooked at our car, [they💞 said] ‘this is a different concept’. There is nothing that concerns us.”