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Thread: 2022 - Race 15 Netherland
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10th September 2022, 01:45 #21
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The regs are fairly tight with regards to IP, and we've seen exclusion from the points due to it already. But it requires evidence beyond how the cars look, work, etc.
We've had the Pink Mercedes and now we have the Green Red Bull. I don't think the Williams side pod designed got named a copy of the Merc idea, but there was certainly some familiarity of the small pods before the recent Williams changes, and that happened at the start of testing, when nobody had any chance to simply try to copy a working design.
If you draw the lines in different places for ownership vs engine suppliers and such the whole thing gets fuzzy quickly. It's F1 and teams will try to copy more successful teams, or at least use their concepts as a basis for research.
The same applies to the drivers programs really, as we have seen recently that who supported them on the way to a seat doesn't matter much. Regardless of ownership any driver can be in contract with multiple teams. Though the RB/AT relationship does allow for an easy "swap" between teams due to most contracts, it's really no different than what the other teams can do when a shuffle takes place.
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