{"id":22415,"date":"2014-06-30T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22415"},"modified":"2014-06-30T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:54:05","slug":"illegal-test-saga-now-over-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/illegal-test-saga-now-over-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Illegal test’ saga now over – reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

A saga involving a controversial pre-season test is now over.<\/p>\n

\"Remi-Taffin-1\"Last month, an unnamed whistleblower circulated letters to the FIA and some rival teams about an allegedly illegal six-day test on Austrian automotive company AVL’s indoor ‘rolling road’ facility.<\/p>\n

It subsequently emerged that the test involved Red Bull’s sister team Toro Rosso but possibly also Red Bull test driver Antonio Felix da Costa.<\/p>\n

Engine supplier Renault’s Remi Taffin confirmed: “We just had to work with our partner AVL, because our own facilities were at full capacity.”<\/p>\n

Renault argued that the ‘test’ was in fact just perfectly legal engine bench running, amid reports the Toro Rosso was not fitted with front or rear wings.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, an FIA spokesperson said three weeks ago: “We will look into the matter carefully and then answer any questions.”<\/p>\n

It appears the investigation is now over, with all parties reportedly cleared of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Even Red Bull’s arch-rival Mercedes admits the test appears to have been above board.<\/p>\n

“We do not suspect anything against the regulations,” team boss Toto Wolff told the Austrian magazine Sportwoche a week ago, “especially as the wings were removed from the car.”<\/p>\n

And at around the same time, Wolff also told Kleine Zeitung newspaper: “We were made aware of it with an anonymous letter.<\/p>\n

“The FIA is looking into it to make sure everything was lawful,” he added, “but to our knowledge, it was not an aero test.”<\/p>\n

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A saga involving a controversial pre-season test is now over. Last month, an unnamed whistleblower circulated letters to the FIA and some rival teams about an allegedly illegal six-day test on Austrian automotive company AVL’s indoor ‘rolling road’ facility. It subsequently emerged that the test involved Red Bull’s sister team Toro Rosso but possibly also …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2407,5010,5262,5300,5340,911,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22416,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22415\/revisions\/22416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}