F1 News: Red Bull scandal nothing more than bias British journalism
British F1 journalists are so bias they will make a ‘Nothing Burger’ into a ‘Big Mac’ in an attempt to make Red Bull Dutch Max Verstappen look bad because he keeps beating their beloved British drivers.
–by Mark Cipolloni–
Red Bull mechanics showed FIA inspectors how the unique ride-height adjustment system works before sprint qualifying in Austin, insisting it requires special tools rather than enabling surreptitious setup tweaks in parc fermé.
“If they really modified the car in parc ferme, it would be more than cheating,” Ferrari boss Vasseur told Sky Italia. “It would be huge.
“But I don’t know the details. The FIA will do its job.”
Turns out Red Bull did nothing wrong
Red Bull denies ever making illegal setup tweaks between qualifying sessions and grands prix, explaining that the device cannot simply be used on the fly.
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“When you hear these cleverly worded comments like ‘You can’t use it when the car is assembled’, well, I know the cars are not always assembled,” McLaren CEO Zak Brown said on Friday.
“And why should the FIA seal something if it’s not accessible?” he wondered.
Brown is pushing the FIA to carefully look into how long the offending Red Bull system has been used for, and whether it was ever tweaked in parc fermé.
Rival Red Bull bosses hint that McLaren is simply pushing the matter so hard perhaps as retaliation for having its clever ‘mini-DRS’ banned recently.
McLaren admits all of its cheater rear wing designs – not just the low-downforce one used in Baku – had to be changed “to varying degrees” as a result of that technical scandal.
As for Red Bull’s T-tray or ‘bib’ device, the team says it cannot completely remove it from the championship-charging car until Brazil.
Dr Helmut Marko insists: “The system is completely legal and was known to all the teams and the FIA. I think that says enough.
“You cannot change the ride height between qualifying and the race, and we have not,” the Red Bull consultant told Sky Deutschland. “I don’t understand all the talk about this.
“Maybe someone wants to distract attention from other problems,” Marko added.
Following on from the news, Red Bull engineers demonstrated how the device works to FIA delegates in their garage after the conclusion of FP1. Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz watched over the process and was convinced by the Milton Keynes-based team’s explanations.
“The more I see about how this device works, the more I’m starting to truly believe Red Bull Racing when they say that we couldn’t [use it],” he explained. “It would be evident on CCTV to get this device in there and start screwing a little nut that actually affects a bit of the car.
“So now I’ve seen how it actually works, I’m starting to think there’s no way they could have done this in Parc Fermé without a scrutineer picking up on it and saying, ‘I’m going to refer this back to the FIA.”
Bias British Sky Sports F1 had mounted a major operation, flying in all personnel to maximize coverage of the “big Red Bull story”
They thought they had a blockbuster for Christmas. The disappointment in their voices when they realized it was a non-story..
Sky Sports F1 had mounted a major operation, flying in all personnel to maximize coverage of the “big Red Bull story”
They thought they had a blockbuster for Christmas.
The disappointment in their voices when they realized it was a non-story…😭 pic.twitter.com/63OWb2GXLj— Marc🏎 (@433_marc) October 19, 2024
Wow, Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz defends Red Bull 🤯
Ted Kravitz, of all people, who sees firsthand how the ‘tool’ works and says it’s impossible for RBR to have used it in parc fermé, is defending them, then you know what kind of a joke story this is.
A non-story used as a… pic.twitter.com/ACKuno5PLu
— Marc🏎 (@433_marc) October 18, 2024