What is really annoying is this constant "kneeling" in front of Ferrari ... Then they should finally get out from F1 and do your own racing League, please do ... The FIA will NEVER prevail against such troublemakers from Maranello ....
You can really look forward to seeing all these "friendship" contracts between FIA / Ferrari finally expire in 2021..
Ferrari remains stubborn in secret deal - opponents angry
Formula 1 has not forgotten the secret engine deal between Ferrari and FIA. Competition demands transparency, Scuderia remains stubborn.
Months have passed since the FIA announced a secret deal with Ferrari in the final minutes of Formula 1 winter testing. In two short paragraphs, the rulers had only stated that Ferrari's engines had been investigated after the suspicions of rule violations during the 2019 season. An agreement had then been reached behind closed doors.
No details were provided, not even to the other F1 teams. However, it seemed suspicious that Ferrari had to provide support for the development of new surveillance systems. Demands for more transparency were rejected, whereupon the seven non-Ferrari teams even threatened legal action shortly before Australia. Then the coronavirus pandemic came and the topic disappeared.
The weekend in Austria came back up, especially after the miserable qualifying performances of the Ferrari-driven cars. The competition from Mercedes and Red Bull made it clear that it has not yet given up the fight for disclosure.
Red Bull & Mercedes demand transparency from Ferrari
"Look, it is uncomfortable that there is an agreement regarding the legality and correctness of a car," criticized Red Bull team boss Christian Horner on Friday before the race. "It immediately makes you wonder what that means. Because in our eyes a car is either legal or illegal."
"The FIA was asked these questions, of course, and the FIA said they would like to publish the document, but they needed the green light from the other parties," Horner said in the background. The "other parties involved" are Ferrari - and they refuse.
"You get nothing but suspicions if there are private agreements about legality and correctness," criticized Horner. "The healthiest thing would be to put it on the table so everyone can see it."
Mercedes makes it clear: Still interested
Mercedes had taken part in the transparency demands first, then stepped down for Australia, and it seemed that Red Bull was leaving the field. Team boss Toto Wolff made it clear in Austria: "We had decided in Melbourne that at the start of the season there was still a controversy, plus the worsening Corona crisis in Italy, that this was not the right moment."
Wolff still wants to disclose: "In these times, transparency is extremely important, and good leadership - that is extremely important. And [the Ferrari deal] could have been good, but if you don't know him, it is difficult to assess. "
"Our position is that we observe it," says Wolff. "We are not happy about last year."
Ferrari continues: no clear violation, no approval
The arguments leave Ferrari and team principal Mattia Binotto cold: "The answer is fairly simple. First of all, there was no clear violation of the rules. Otherwise we would have been disqualified. We do not want to make it public because what we would release is our intellectual property , our project, our power unit, and no one in the paddock would be happy to publish information about their designs or projects. "
"It's intellectual property, it's confidential, it's about protecting intellectual property, so we don't want to do it," Binotto remains firm. As long as they do not allow approval, the FIA's hands are tied - because the deal was definitely within the framework of the FIA's judicial and disciplinary rules.
Without Ferrari giving in, this dispute remains unsolved. Unless the competition is actually struggling to take legal action.
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