Zak Brown, director of McLaren, explained that his bottle of drink with the label “water for the tires” is an indirect to claims on the management of the temperature of the equipment tires.
After the insinuations that McLaren is breaking the rules on how his tires keeps cold, Brown says that the F1 must ensure that the equipment has to pay more to avoid “frivolous” claims about any technical problem.
It is understood that these allegations come from Red Bull, who believes that McLaren has managed to keep his tires and brakes cold with a water supply to ensure that the MCL39 does not suffer overheating in this area.
The F1 already has a protest mechanism, and the FIA Sports Regulations details that a 2,000 euros deposit must be made along with any protest presented by a team.
However, Brown has suggested that this should go further, and says that any concern publicly expressed about the car of another team should ensure that this “is written” to dissuade any “false” accusation.
“[La botella de agua] He made fun of a serious issue, which is that teams have historically made accusations of other teams. Lately, a team focuses on that strategy more than others, “Brown said.
“There is an adequate way to protest against a team at the end of the race, and you have to make it formal, reveal where it comes from, put some money.
“I think that process should be extended to all complaints to end the frivolous accusations that only interact.”
Zak Brown, McLaren
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“So if you had to put some money and put in writing and not in the back what your allegations are, I think it would be a way to clean the false accusations that have occurred in this sport, which are not very sports.
“And if someone believes there is a technical problem, he is in his right. Put it in writing, put their money.
“If it turns out that you are wrong, I should go against your cost limit, and I think that would significantly stop the false accusations that come from some teams of this sport.”
To the question of what economic figure would suggest that it put into a protest, Brown said it would have to be a “significant” amount to ensure that a team felt the effect of it.
This, in his opinion, would ensure that any protest would have to be a commitment and affect the team’s car development budget.
“It has to be significant from the point of view of ‘I am choosing to spend money on that instead of my own racing car’ ‘ [punto de vista]. We are just at the border of the budget gap.
“I know we will not waste a dollar in anything that we do not believe that it contributes yield, so it will probably be 25,000. Would you spend 25,000 in a distraction tactic or to develop my own racing car? I would spend it in my racing car all day, so I think it has to be.
“It is not necessary to be hundreds of thousands. But it has to be significant enough to be removed that you could be spending in your car, having to do so to go through the right channels, to make sure they are not just allegations.
“Something serious is investigated.”
