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Aero change ‘step into the unknown' for Racing Point

Racing Point CEO Otmar Szafnauer admits his team's change in aero concept for 2020 was a 'step into the unknown'. Mercedes would steal all the headlines in testing for their DAS system, but before that all the scrutiny was going Racing Point's way after rival teams accused them of copying the W10, making the RP20 nothing more than a 'pink Mercedes'. But Szafnauer made it clear that the criticism 'doesn't bother' him, in fact his team are happy that finally they were able to switch their aero concept to get the best out of their Mercedes components. 'It doesn't bother me. We've been talking about doing this for a long time,' he told the F1 website. 'We've had the Mercedes gearbox in the...
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