Christian Horner reiterated today that Red Bull firmly believes that it was the responsibility of Mercedes to obey the FIA’s rules related to testing.
Horner said he trusted that the FIA tribunal would come to the correct conclusion.
“Our feelings were fairly clear because we raised a protest about it in Monaco,” said Horner. “So we believe that it is the responsibility of the entrant to comply with the regulations, so when it came to light that a test with a current car had taken place, our interpretation of the regulations is that that was in clear breach of them, and therefore we raised a protest prior to the race for it to be dealt with as an issues by the FIA.
“It’s really an issue between the team and the FIA. Obviously Pirelli have asked several teams to test, ourselves included, but we have declined to do so because we felt that it wasn’t in line with the regulations, certainly with a current car. That’s the situation.
“It’s gone to the Tribunal and we trust in the FIA to make the appropriate decisions regarding it. I think the important thing is that there needs to be absolute clarity moving forward in terms of what you can do and what you can’t do going forward, you know, what is testing and what isn’t testing. I think that’s more crucial than anything, it is to be fully resolved.”
Horner reiterated that any team would learn a lot running a 2013 car, even in a tyre test.
“When you’re not allowed to test, when you have limited mileage, when the rules are written as they are, when you run a current car of course fthe way that Formula One is, with the way that the amount of technology and with the amount of data analysis there is, you’re always learning. Whether it be reliability, whether it be endurance, whether it be performance.
“So, of course, even if you’re testing a component for a supplier, you’re learning. I think Formula One has moved an awfully long way over the last few years to ensure fairness and equality to all of the entrants. I think that if a team does carry out 1000km of additional testing with a current car, you’re going to learn something.”
Adam Cooper F1 
The only reason Redbull are speaking the loudest over this is due to the fact that they are behind Mercedes in overall pace. They are flexing their muscles. Making a lot of white noise hoping that the FIA will listen to them. I suspect it will be some type of fine if anything.
Wow. These Red Bull cry-babies sure do like the sound of their own rattles, don’t they?
Adam, I think it should be re-re-re-reinterated. Talk about using the press to affect the jury pool. Too much.
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Of course this is the same Red Bull who are alleged to have broken the RRA in the past…
@ Brian … when you put them in a press conference they cant all do a Nico & pull the no comment card.
It’s easy actually, you say, “We’ve made our position clear, now it’s up to the Tribunal.” Instead the world gets this endless repetition of the Marko, Horner, and Vettel Trio singing “You Cheated, You Lied” to anyone who’ll listen. :rolls eyes:
For a team that was viewed as new, modern, breath of fresh air in the stale, stiff F1 paddock……. 3 WC’s has seen
Red Bull morph into Ferrari of the Todt/Brawn/Schumacher era. It took the Scuderia more than a few decades to become this precious, Red Bull have gone straight to the mountaintop of self-righteousness! Quite an achievement.
I’m going to wait for the tribunal’s ruling on this controversy, before I start condeming anyone.
Mercedes keep repeating the mantra “wait until you see the evidence” at the tribunal, but it appears bleaker and bleaker regarding this outcome.
After all the FIA never make a mistake do they? Ergo it will all come down on Mercedes head and Ross will be the sacrificial lamb.
Lewis Hamilton’s fanboyism is strong in these comments…
How was the engine allocation issue handled for the test? Was an engine from the allocation used or was an engine fitted outside of the allocation which could raise its own issues? Same for the gearbox…