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Brawn on Racing Point protest: 'Copying is standard in F1'

F1 director of motorsport Ross Brawn says copying in F1 is standard practice, but the FIA is facing a "tricky problem" when it comes to judging the legality of Racing Point's RP20 design. Racing Point is fielding a car this season whose design it admits was directly based on a detailed photographic analysis of Mercedes' 2019 winning W10. The Silverstone-based outfit's design approach has unsettled its rivals, especially Renault which lodged a protest after the Styrian Grand Prix and another after Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix that targets the brake ducts on Racing Point's RP20 which are almost identical to those that featured on last year's Silver Arrow. The bone of contention...
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