Aston Martin revealed a heavy revised car at Barcelona featuring aerodynamic elements that bear an extremely close 🧸resemblance to the design of this year’s Red Bull. 

The Silverstone-based outfit appears to ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhave drawn inspiration from Red Bull’s solution to the sidepod concept on their 2022 car, which features an aggressive undercut. 

Red Bull's Christian Horner was spotted 🧜with a green can of hꦅis team's energy drink, while Helmut Marko questioned if ex-colleagues who joined Aston Martin had taken ideas with them.

But on Friday, the FIA revealed it had undertaken a “routine pre-event legalit♋y check” of the planned upgrades, but found no wrongdoing. 

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“Both teams collaborated fully with the FIA i🐟n this investigation and provided all the relev🧸ant information,” an FIA statement read. 

“The investigation, which involved CAD checks and a detailed analysis of the development process adopted by Aston Martin, confirmed that no wrongdoing had been committed, and therefore the FIA considers that the Aston Martin aero🌸dynamic upgrades are compliant.

“Ar🌳ticle 17.3 specifically defines and prohibits “Reverse Engineering”, i.e. the digital process of converting photographs (or other data) to CAD models, and prohibits IP transfer between teams, but equally, this Article permits car designs getting influenced by those of competitors, as has always been the case in Formula 1. 

“In🃏 the analysis we carried out we confirmed that the processes followed by Aston Martin were ﷽consistent with this Article’s requirements.” 

Aston Martin have recruited several personnel from Red Bull, including their former head of aerodynamics, Dan Fallꦇows. Fallows was signed last year but could only begin his new role with Aston Martin in April after a settlement was reached between the two teams. 

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Red Bull said they had “noted the FIA’s statement with int🎃erest.”&nbs🀅p;

“While imitation is the greatest form of ꦕflattery, any replication of design would obviously need to comply with the FIA’s rules around ‘Reverse Engineering’,” a team statement added.

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“However, should any🌟 transfer of IP have taken place that would clearly be a breach of regulations and would be a serious concern.”&nbs𒉰p;

Marko, a Red Bull consultant, claimed to Sky Germany that “there🍰 is evidence that data was downloaded”.

It is not the first time that Aston Martin have been suspected of copying a rival’s car design, 🉐with the then Racing Point squad’s 2020 car dubbed the ‘pink Mercedes’ due to its striking resemblance with the Mercedes W10. 

Aston Martin: We have been transparent

Aston Martin's team principal Mike Krack denied claims they had copied Red Bull when speaking to Sky Sports: “We have been clear, transparent, open. We have been g🍸iven the green light.

“It is a normal devel🌠opment process. We had porpoising difficulties. We said: ‘🎃We need to change’.

“We brin❀g upgrades all the time. Sometimes they are visible, sometimes not.”