Christian Horner has scoffed at the suggestion his Red Bull team are running an illegal traction control device on their title-leading RB9 cars.
The emphatic nature of Sebastian Vettel's recent surge of success, culminating in his dominant victory of the Singapore GP, has prompted plenty of head-scratching up and down the pitlane and a few lurid accusations elsewhere with doubts raised by Giancarlo Minardi, the former boss of the eponymous team, about the legality of the Red Bulls.
As he addressed the press corps ahead of this weekend's Korean GP, a relaxed Horner revealed that the claims had left him utterly bemused.
"It's complete rubbish. We're running traction control through the ECUs which are supplied by McLaren and approved by the FIA? They fully comply with the rules, it's a standard unit which all the teams use, and any suggestion of traction control is either mischievous or wishful thinking," retorted the Red Bull Team Principal.
"You'd be pretty stupid to run traction control. I can't imagine any team in the pitlane would even entertain it."
While the scale of Vettel's win in Singapore was remarkable, with the German crossing the line over thirty seconds clear of Fernando Alonso despite the mid-race deployment of a Safe-ty Car, Horner is adamant that the margin of victory was ultimately dependent on the brilliance of his lead driver's career-best performance.
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