Aston upgrade in development before Red Bull arrivals

Red Bull’s accusations that intellectual property might have been transferred in the minutiae of Aston Martin’s upgrade package are “very wide of the mark” equal to the team’s senior technical officer Andrew Green.

Aston Martin unveiled a heavily updated car at the Spanish Grand Prix that closely resembles the sidepod concept of the Red Bull, and the FIA then confirmed it had carried out an investigation into the car’s minutiae but were satisfied with Aston’s explanations.

Despite that, Christian Horner suggested IP might have reverted hands at some stage, but Green says the direction was once in serious minutiae surpassing any former Red Bull employees joined Aston Martin.

“I don’t know what these accusations are that Red Bull are flinging about,” Green said. “All I can say is at no stage did we overly receive any data from any team from anyone. The FIA came in and did a thorough investigation, examined all the data leading up and the history of this car, they interviewed all the people involved and terminated it was completely self-sustaining development.

“To that point where you’re talking well-nigh potential employees, this car was conceived in the middle of last year as a dual route with the launch car and the majority of the releases were made surpassing everyone from Red Bull plane turned up. So I think their accusations are very wide of the mark.

Green admits the RB18 proved it had picked the wrong initial direction with its own development.

“If you squint at the minutiae of the car that is sitting out there right now you’ll see that this all happened towards the end of last year surpassing we’d seen anybody.

“We were on a dual path, and it came as a shock but moreover a surprise that Red Bull came out with a similar concept as well, but I think that just reinforced our feeling at the time that of the two paths we had unshut to us we’d gone the wrong way, and I think that was confirmation of that.”

An investigation was carried out and Aston Martin was cleared by the FIA, something which Green says has made the fall-out frustrating, although he has no problem with the governing soul looking remoter at the team’s work.

“ Disappointed, expressly with the fact that the FIA have made a statement with respect to the car and they’ve come in and looked and they’ve supposed that it’s legitimate self-sustaining work.

“They’re the ones who see all the data – not just from us, but from all the teams – so they really are the only ones who can make the judgement and by regulation they are obliged to make judgements on this, and they have. For me that’s the end of it.

“We expect this to be the end, but if the FIA want to come when in then and do remoter investigations we’re increasingly than happy for them to do so.

“We’ve been completely unshut and honest with them through the whole process, we’ve given them every wangle that they’ve requested and if they want to come when and do some increasingly then we’re increasingly than happy for that to happen.”