It’s fair to say the team had made its fair share of headlines since Formula 1 returned to action in Austria earlier this month. “We invited the FIA to our factory in March following the pre-season tests in Barcelona and after we heard rumours of potential protests. “We invited the FIA to come and observe our processes and to interview our designers and aerodynamicists to understand how we developed this car, because it is significantly different to what we’ve done in the past. “The FIA were happy that all the designs belonged to us, that they are all ours and that we developed the car independently of anyone else.

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