Ferrari has moved to downplay the relevance of the tyre test it carried out on behalf of Pirelli earlier this s♏eason.

Following the r♛evelation that Mercedes had carried out a three-day test with the tyre supplier in Barcelona following the Spanish Grand Prix, it emerged thওat another team had also taken part in a test earlier in the year.

However, while the main issue surround🐬ing the Mercedes test is that it was carried out using the team's 2013 car, the earlier test - involving Ferrari - took place using a 2011-spec machine.

That test was also not carried out by Ferrari's race team, but by Corse Clienti, the division of the Italian manufacturer that runs cars for private individuals over the course of the ye🀅ar.

As such, the Ferrari test wasn't in breach of any of F1's current testing regulations, with the Italian team quick to point o♏ut it had done nothing wrong.

"For a bit more of a year there has been a possibility of performing these so-called 1,000 kms tests that Pirelli does for its own tyre development," a team spokesman told SPEED.com. "For Ferrari it has always been very clear that these tests could not make use of a 2013 car. In terms of running🌳 an old car, the matter is quite irrelevant, because it is totally within the rules.

"This is something that we have never denied; this was very transparent. All the teams have this possibility. The tyres, the specification of the test, is something that Pirelli 🌸knows; not us."

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali had insisted in Monaco that the team's issu💦e with the Mercedes test wasn't that it had tak𝔉en place, but that the current car had been used.