Red Bull boss Christian Horner says that his team would be happy to see the FIA issue another rule clarification, this time on ride-height rules, after his team was accused of running an 'active ride-height' system on their cars.
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh twice brought up the idea of their Red Bull rivals using an adjustable ride-height system throughout the weekend, in post-qualifying and post-race interviews on the BBC.
"I think there's some evidence that there are ride-height control systems which many people wouldn't have thought were permissible," Whitmarsh scurrilously guessed during a TV interview.
The suspicion that the RBR team are using some sort of device that allows the cars to run low in qualifying but then raise the cars in parc ferme to make sure the car doesn't bottom out when filled with race fuel is believed to be shared by a number of other teams on the grid.
With refuelling banned, teams are being forced to run sub-optimum suspension setups in qualifying to ensure that the car will still work at the start of the race once the heavy race fuel is onboard, yet Whitmarsh pointed out that Mark Webber's RB6 seemed to be bottoming-out in qualifying at Albert Park.
However the Red Bull team dispute that there is any rule-bending system on their cars, and Horner says that he is happy for the FIA to issue a rule clarification.
"McLaren has made a lot of comments recently, be it about our fuel tank size or the future of our drivers and now supposed systems on the car," Horner said today.
"Categorically we don't have anything like that on the car. It is down to them to speculate, but a clarification would be good for everybody."
He added that the comments from their rivals was not adversely affecting the team, that has started the 2010 season as the somewhat unreliable pacesetters.
"Ultimately we tend to ignore comments from other quarters, but it demonstrates we are doing something right that they have a need to," Horner grinned.
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