Concerns have been raised by rival teams over the ever-increasing ties between R𝔉ed Bull and AlphaTauri after the sudden improvements made by the sister outfit towards the end of the 2023 season. 

As p🍃art of a wider revamp of the AlphaTauri squad ahead of 2024, which will include a name change, the team will forge an even closer alliance with the Red Bull senior team. 

This will include taking more parts from Red Bull, something which has raised eyebrows among rival tea🔯ms who want to ensure the partne🤡rship is above board.  

F1’s regulatio♏ns feature a strict list of parts that may be shared between teams. ♛Certain key areas, such as the bodywork, can’t be outsourced. 

Whil🌳e the FIA has downplayed specific concerns relating to Red Bull and Alph♓aTauri, F1’s governing body is set to clampdown on the matter. 

“We check teams that are in close proximity to each other a lot more closely tha💜n we check completely independent teams, exactly to make sure this thing doe൲sn't happen. That is a concern,” the FIA’s single-seater chief Nikolas Tombazis is quoted by Motorsport.com.

“It has been♛ a concern not only between the two teams mentioned, but also among other pairs of teams.  

“We believe that AlphaTauri specifically does have quite different aerodynamic solutions to the other company, and we don'ꦑt think there's any sign of any direct collaboration.  

“Clearly, they are working hard and they have made a step forward. Bu🍷t I don't think it caဣn be said it's due to collaboration. 

“Tha꧙t said, collaboration, or making sure that no such thing happens, is one of the tricky parts of policingꦫ teams. 

“We do need to audit and m🌄ake sure that all of these teams are well segregated and so on. And we will be issuing some further guidance꧋s quite soon to just provide further information to the teams about how they can convince us none of that is happening.  

“We're not underestimating the challenge and it is one of t♉he difficulties🦄 we have.” 

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner recently insisted that what his team are doing with AlphaTauri is 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“an awfully long way from a ‘Pink Mercedes🐬’”, referencing 🌠the controversy involving Racing Point in 2020. 

Tombazis stressed the FIA has seen nothing ꦫto worry about regarding how Red Bull and AlphaTauri work together and said the issue goes beyond te𝓀ams who openly collaborate. 

“The main incentive for two teams to collaborate isn't whether they exchange components or whether they even share𒆙 a wind tunnel,” he explainꦜed. 

“You can have two teams collaborating, one is in the UK, and one is in Argentina, and if two teams wants to communicate against regulations, have Zoom calls and have th💜e engineers chat with each other, that is quite feasibꦍle.  

“We don't watch people's day-to-day movements, and nor is it our intention to do so. These pairs of teams get more frequenꦑtly criticised for collaboration just because they have common ownership or whatever, but it is not the only pair of teams that could collaborate. You could have two independent teams who decide to mutually gain by helping each other. 

"I don't think that's happening, but I'm just saying that🔜 our tools t🔯o prevent this happening don't need to be just linked to physical components that are sold by one team to the other.”