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Aston Martin has requested an audience with the FIA over 2021 rules that seem to favour high-rake cars. Toto Wolff says the rule changes might have been aimed at Mercedes.
Mercedes and Aston Martin have used the low-rake concept for their cars for some time now, but with 2021 rule changes that favour high-rake cars, their performance has taken a severe hit.
Mercedes has already indicated on numerous occasions that they believe this was done intentionally to slow them down.
With Aston Martin also suffering, their team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said the team would like to speak to the FIA to discuss why such changes were necessary.
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Toto Wolff supports such a move and adds Aston Martin might have been just “collateral damage”.
“I understand the topic, because of how the rules have fallen into place last year, one can always question what the motivation was,” the Austrian said.
“I think there is always certainly the right to review and look at things and discuss them with the FIA, to find out what has actually happened, and how have things happened.
“That’s why I respect Aston Martin’s enquiry into the whole thing. Maybe things were targeted at us, and they are collateral damage.
“So yeah, that’s OK,” concluded Wolff.
