Because the 2023 marketing campaign drew to a detailed, AlphaTauri introduced a string of aggressive upgrades to climb from final to eighth within the constructors’ championship. In the meantime, Pink Bull didn’t meaningfully replace its automotive from August.
With the upgrades giving AlphaTauri main features in low-speed corners – an space of weak point for Pink Bull – rivals thought-about how excessive the junior group may climb and whether or not any sharing of useful resource may also assist Pink Bull eke out its restricted wind tunnel testing allowance.
Whereas Pink Bull F1 boss Christian Horner has rubbished the suggestion that any guidelines are being damaged, and the FIA has accomplished compliance checks, Brown says he nonetheless has “massive considerations” over the alliance.
Talking completely to Motorsport.com, the McLaren boss stated: “The million-dollar query that none of us know is how early did they [Red Bull] flip off this 12 months’s automotive?
“We all know we’ve outperformed the others within the growth race, and we all know we’ve closed the hole to Pink Bull however what none of us know is: did Pink Bull cease, and we simply caught up, or have been they nonetheless creating?
“Additionally, we now have some massive considerations over the alliance between AlphaTauri and Pink Bull. I believe that’s one thing that must be addressed sooner or later.
“So, I nonetheless suppose the game has a option to go to be sure that everybody is actually unbiased.”
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Nyck de Vries, AlphaTauri AT04, Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing RB19, Lando Norris, McLaren MCL60
Groups could kind technical alliances (presently essentially the most notable is the working relationship between Haas and Ferrari) to purchase specified elements, together with hydraulics, gearbox and suspension.
Fears that Pink Bull and AlphaTauri have overstepped have been fuelled by AlphaTauri transferring personnel from Faenza to the UK because it seeks to save cash by consolidating round its aerodynamics facility in Bicester.
Brown continued: “It’s two groups with frequent possession, which you wouldn’t have in different sports activities.
“[It could benefit Red Bull in] lots of alternative ways. There’s a motive why they’re transferring lots of their folks from Italy.
“As Helmut [Marko, Red Bull motorsport advisor] has stated, they’re going to do completely every thing they will to profit from having two groups.
“I get that as a result of that’s what the foundations say. However I believe we have to take a look at the governance of the game round technical alliances.”
