Formula 1's governing body – the FIA – gave Aston Martin's revised car the all-clear at the Spanish Grand Prix after Red Bull, team of world champion Max Verstappen, raised suspicions their design had been copied. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, on Friday day one of practice for the Spanish Grand Prix, expressed concern that his team's intellectual property had found its way to their rivals, in a breach of rules banning so-called ‘reverse engineering'. The governing FIA said it had carried out a 'routine pre-event legality' check of Aston Martin's planned aerodynamic upgrade. It said it became apparent during the process that 'a number of features' on the car...
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