Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says he is not bothered about engine map issue – Formula 1
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said that he is prepared for a clarification of the rules regarding engine maps after the team was stunned with the news of an investigation deeming the teams engine map as illegal.
The FIA technical delegation looked into the engine map of the RB8 and reported that the cars torque map was illegal. The delegate Jo Bauer reported the issue to the stewards and they gave Vettel a time penalty of 20 seconds which saw him drop down to fifth
position.
A meeting is set of the technical Working Group on Monday and Horner has said that it is possible a technical directive could be given ahead of the Budapest Grand Prix.
“I'm sure there's going to be debate about it,” Horner said. “Conveniently, there's a Technical Working Group meeting tomorrow and I'm sure this will no doubt go on to the agenda. But the regulations are clear, so there could well be further technical directives
that are designed to further clarify those regulations.”
“There's no clause in the regulations that refers to the spirit of the regulations,” he added. “I think that the regulations are fairly straight forward and it's either in or out and it can't be a little bit in or a little bit out.”
He added that Renault have made their case very clearly and the stewards listened to the discussion and looked at all the evidence they provided, not just from this race but from all of the races so far in the season and deemed that the regulation, was in
full compliance.
He also admitted that the regulation is very complex regarding the issue and can be a little confusing but it has been deemed ok and that is where the situation stand at this point.
It will be interesting to see whether FIA comes up with a regulation change regarding the issue for the next Grand Prix or not. FIA might change the regulations in order to avoid any backlash from other teams.
The next Grand Prix is scheduled for July 29, 2012 at Budapest in Hungary.
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