McLaren double down on Red Bull-RB criticism: “The FIA need to do something”
McLaren have called on the FIA to take action against Red Bull and Visa Cash App RB amid concerns about one company owning two💖 F1 teams.
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has urged the FIA to take action on Red Bull’s close alliance with sister F1 team Visa Cash App RB.
Red Bull have had a second team on the grid since 20💙06, starting off as Toro Ro🍎sso.
The sister outfit has often been a way for Red Bu🐽ll to try out their young drivers and see who has what it takes to drive for the𒀰 main team.
The likes of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo all starte🃏d out at Toro Rosso before winning races and championships (in the case of the fi🌞rst two) with Red Bull.
RB (formerly AlphaTauri) are widely-regarded to be working more closely with Red Bull, taking as much as they can from the world champions - with꧒in the regulations - to gain a competitive advantage.
RB’s relationship𒁏 with Red Bull has irked Brown in particular, who has been most critical on this issue.
Speaking after🐭 the launch of McLaren’s 2024 F1 calendar, Brown disagreed that he was “paranoid” about RB’s potential threat in 2024, explaining he’s “speaking in the wider interest” of F1.
“No, I’m actually speaking in the wideܫr interest of the sport,” he said. “If you look at every other major sport, you’re not allowed ꧑to own two teams – and I’d even go further.
“Ther💮e’s A-B team relationships and when these started 15 years ago it was because there was a huဣge gap between the top teams and the bottom teams.
“Now that there’s this gre♍a🌼t budget cap in place, all 10 teams are pretty much running to the cap so we have an equal playing field.
“So to have two ownerships, I can tell you from sitting in the FIA and F1 Commission meeting🌄s the voting is always the same even when, in theory, it shouldn’t be 𒐪in one of the team’s best interests.
“We’ve seen it on track, some collaborations going on, and then technically they’ve been very f🐭orthright in where they’re going to take th💝e suspension, etc.
“The definition of a constructor is a team who develops theꦰir own IP, so I just think th🅰e sport’s now moved on to an equal playing field.
“To have A-B relationships, to have co-ownership of two teams, I think isn’t🔯 a level playing field.
“That’s not what the fans ꦿexpect and so the FIA really needs to do something about it.”
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