Racing Point is set 🔜to base its 2021 Formula 1 car design around a Mercedes-style rear suspensio💦n. 

The Silverstone-based outfit, which currently holds third place in the constructors’ championship, has recently introduced a host of new upgrades to its controv💜ersial RP20, which has been influenced by Mercedes’ 2019 W10. 

Recent updates have included a sizeable aerodynamic upgrade at Mugello, as wel🍬l as further changes to the rear suspension to provide more flexibility and greater options relating to set-up.

Racing Point is yet to introduce a full rear suspension upgrade that mirrors the design of Mercedes’ current challenger, but Green confirmed that the W11-inspired rear-e⛄nd is “what we’re designing next year’s car around”. 

“It’s an upgrade to 2020 suspension, it’s not an upgrad♊e to 2021,” Green said at the Eifel Grand Prix. “What we’re ꦫrunning now is 2019. 

“What t🌺hey want to do is penalise us and keep us running two-year old parts rather t🌳han bring us up to date. 

“It’s not like⛦ we’re getting an advantage and bringing 202ꦿ1 parts to the car. It’s only bringing it up to the same as they’ve got now.” 

Team⛄s currently using 2019 unlisted customer parts can upgrade them to 2020-spec for next year without having to deploy toke🍸ns introduced to rein in development. 

The FIA’s decision not 🉐to drop the new rule has angered some teams who are frus🍰trated that Racing Point and AlphaTauri will effectively get ‘free’ upgrades for their respective 2021 cars due to the loophole. 

“The rules allow us to do it,” Green explained. “We’ve cleared it 𝐆with the FIA, they have no problem with us doing it. 

“The rules as written allow teams to bring their cars up to the 2020 specifi🌠cation, which I think is only fair. Just because we elected, before COVID started, to run 2019 suspension, shouldn’t be held against us. 

“So we should be allowed to bring our ꦰcar up to the same specification a🐬s everyone else has got.”