Several team principals have gi🌟ven their cautious backing to the decision passed by the FIA over the use of mass dampers, a situation that came to a head this week when Renault were force🐬d to remove theirs.

Used by some of the teams, only Renault have been able to extract♌ a performance advantage from their system, which is an aerodynamic device to improve front-end stability, but while they have used it throughout this season, it is only now the FIA have actively proceeded to outlaw it.

It was a move that all team principals attending the press conference ahead of the Turkish Grand Prix gave 😼their backing to, suggesting that the championship should not ultimately be decided by whether or not teams use mass dampers.

"W𒆙e've not used the mass damper in a race situation," said Honda team principal Nick Fry. "We have tested mass damper devices. If the mass damper had not have been banned ไthere's a very high probability we would have been using a mass damper in this race and beyond because it's taken some time to develop.

"I think mass dampers were developing in a wa🍬y - and maybe what you've just seen from us this weekend would have fulfilled the worst fears of the FIA in that they were developing in a way that probably wasn't very fruitful so personally I ๊think the FIA decision is a good one."

Frank Williams however has raised concerns about 🍎the scrut𒁏ineering of the cars, claiming he finds it strange that such a tried and tested system had been used without query for so long.

"I've no quarrel what the FIA chose to do," he said. "We never attempted to make a mass damper but I idly as🐬k myself the question - it's a strange time, and I don't mean in a way that's detrimental to the reputation of the FIA - it's a strange time to discover this technology.

"I can therefore only presume it's just arrived in the Renault, or was it there a season ago? What I'm saying in a different way is, just how tꦦhoroughly does the FIA investigate all cars at the beginning of the season, every quarter. It's an open question."