McLaren have halted development on their own self-regulating suspension system to lower the cars through qualifying, to gain a significant downforce advantage.
Many people within the paddock suspected Red Bull of using a controversial system to lower their cars when they are carrying less fuel. McLaren then decided to develop their own system in the hope it would close the gap to the leaders.
However, with the recent clarification on suspension coming from the FIA last week, McLaren’s Paddy Lowe confirmed the Woking based team has now halted development in this area.
“We were aware over the last few months of a different approach to it [the suspension system]; an approach which historically we hadn’t thought to be the typical interpretation, and we were reacting to that,” Lowe told Autosport.
“Now that the FIA has taken a fresh view of it and drawn a different line – and one we think is nearer the historical line – we are reacting to that too, so we’ve had to change some of the things we’re doing.
“Basically, we had a system we were working on, and we’ve now suspended that.”
He also confirmed that the ruling won’t affect their car in anyway, and the team will be running a number of aerodynamic upgrades in China.
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