Ted Kravitz 'can't believe' what he saw as FIA visits Red Bull at USGP amid ride height row

Sky Sports F1 pit lane newsman Ted Kravitz was delighted to witnesser a Red Bull mechanic show its thrust tallness controls to FIA officials successful the USGP paddock

Ted Kravitz was a delighted spectator arsenic FIA officials visited the Red Bull store astatine the United States Grand Prix to statesman its monitoring of a arguable instrumentality fitted to their cars.

Much has been made up of this Austin lawsuit astir this instrumentality which allows a squad to rise and little the tallness of the beforehand bib of a car. It was initially reported that an unnamed squad had held discussions with the FIA aft concerns were raised by respective rivals implicit the evident beingness of specified a device.

Red Bull aboriginal owned up to being the ones utilizing it, though the squad insists it was ne'er utilized illegally - and determination is nary grounds that it has. Still, rival teams including McLaren person been vocal astir the show vantage gains Red Bull could person gained done usage of the device.

The FIA plans to intimately show its use. And that process began connected Friday aft signifier successful Austin, erstwhile 2 officials from the governing assemblage visited the Red Bull store to get a objection from main mechanic Ole Schack and to acceptable seals wrong the car.

Happily for Sky Sports F1 pit lane newsman Kravitz, helium was contiguous to witnesser the full speech portion cameras broadcasted it unrecorded to viewers. "I inactive cannot rather judge we are watching it beryllium demonstrated," helium said excitedly arsenic helium observed it.

Kravitz added: "I could ticker this each day, due to the fact that Ole Schack is the antheral who knows - helium has been with a loyal servant of Red Bull Racing since the beginning, truthful if anyone knows past Ole knows.

"He has conscionable demonstrated, with the tools that you conscionable saw, however it is that they usage this instrumentality to impact and alteration the beforehand thrust tallness of this Red Bull. Absolutely fascinating scenes going connected down here. This is the FIA knowing from Red Bull Racing however it has changed and however they are going to govern it going forward."

Rivals are acrophobic astir the placement of the instrumentality and it has been suggested that it is accessible done the cockpit, perchance making it truthful that it could beryllium tweaked adjacent erstwhile nether parc ferme conditions. There is nary grounds that the defending F1 champions person done that and, having watched Schack show however a mechanic mightiness get to the device, Kravitz said helium is starting to judge Red Bull's broadside of the story.

He continued: "Having seen it present with my ain eyes, I cannot judge that an FIA scrutineer who is ever successful the store would not person watched that successful parc ferme and thought, 'That looks a spot suspicious'. The much I spot astir however this instrumentality works, the much I americium starting to genuinely judge Red Bull Racing erstwhile they say, 'We could not, we would not'.

"It would beryllium evident connected CCTV to get this instrumentality successful determination and commencement screwing a small seed that really affects a spot of the car. So present I person seen however it really works, I americium starting to deliberation determination is nary mode they could person done this successful parc ferme without a scrutineer picking up connected it and saying, 'I americium going to notation this backmost to the FIA'."