Why Aston Martin feared “war of words” with Red Bull’s Christian Horner

Eyes were on Aston Martin after they introduced🌄 their B-spec car at the Spanisౠh Grand Prix.
Aston Ma🧸rtin’s car looked very similar to Red Bu🍌ll’s RB18 - something that caught the attention of Horner and the Red Bull team.
In response, Horner was pictur𓃲ed on the team’s pit wall with a green can of Red Bull energy drink, a little dig at Aston Martin’s 🍸‘green bull’.
The controversy didn’t last to🐲o long as Aston Martin initially still struggled for performan💞ce while Red Bull romped away in the title race.
Krack denied that Aston 𒆙Martin had copied Red Bull during 2022.
“Frustration is the wꦰrong word because we knew that, we anticipated that ဣthis will happen,” he said. “I think we would have maybe taken it more on board if there was any truth in it. We really did our stuff.
"We knew that this might come and I think if you look back, we were quite relaxed about it and there wasꦫ no war of words from our side. It calmed down in the meantime and we have moved on."

Red Bull were particulꦇarly concerne👍d about it because had made the switch to Aston Martin.
Voicing his concerns at the time, Horner said: “It is quite a thing to instruct your team to come up with a very close-looking clone of our car. A few people have moved over the ꦛwinter period, and what you can’t control is what they take in the🅺ir heads.
“But wꦰhat would be of grave concern to us would be if any IP had in any way changed hands.”

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