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McLaren boss Zak Brown is not willing to let the Red Bull front bib saga die down, as he has demanded the governing body to conduct a thorough investigation. Even before the F1 US GP race weekend began, there were reports of a team using a device to alter ride height during parc ferme.
With the help of the device, the team could alter the edge height after qualifying, which cannot be done during parc ferme conditions. Red Bull was quick to acknowledge that the reported team making the changes was the Austrian squad only. With that being said, RBR also clarified that once the car is assembled, it's not possible to operate the device anyway.
Talking to Sky Sports F1, McLaren boss Zak Brown shared his disappointment at the way the entire thing has been conducted. Pointing out that Red Bull was the only team whose design was different from the other nine teams, he said:
“Transparency is critically important in today's day and age. I still have questions, I know from talking to other team bosses, they still have questions. So until those questions are answered I think it is still an ongoing investigation to [find] out what do we know."
He added:
“I'd like some more answers before I'm prepared to kind of go, ‘right I guess they were, they weren't [using it]'. But I think the FIA will [find] it out.”
Red Bull had no choice: McLaren
The other area where Red Bull was given a nod of approval was when the Austrian team came forward with the information that it was already making changes to its car. After it was reported that there was a team that was told by the FIA to make changes, the spokesperson for the team was quick to front up to the media.
Brown sees it differently, as the McLaren boss feels that the team did not have any other option. He said:
“There was no denying that they [Red Bull] have the ability to access the front bib from inside the car [cockpit], that's undisputed. So I think they had no choice but to say, yes we can."
He added:
"We know we can't, we don't have the access, it's not designed that way. And from what we're seeing, the other eight teams don't, so I think they had no choice.”
It will be interesting to see what the next course of action is for the two rivals now, especially with the FIA yet to share what the next steps of action are going to be, if any.
The war of words between the two team bosses has continued, though. With a championship on the line, this will only ramp up.
