With the tribunal hearing for Mercedes and Pirelli set to happen in 7 days time, evidence is building up against the Mercedes F1 Team, as a leaked gentlemen's agreement now also seems to have been breached. Germany's SportBild has published a document that seals a gentlemen's agreement between all current F1 teams. The document states that if any team wanted to run development testing for 2014, any test would have to be jointly approved by the testing committee - the teams - and the FIA. Although Ross Brawn denied at Canada the test was actually 'secret' but rather 'private', the agreement requires any team that is out to test elements for 2014 is bound to inform all other competitors...
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