“So, Ducati came to me in Qatar, they said ‘we have this device, the primary purpose of this device was to aid the cooling of the rear tyre because they thought they had a problem with this. Following the demonstration to me, I examined and, in my opinion, it did what they said; the primary purpose was for cooling. From this point onwards the other manufacturers felt this was not correct, that in their opinion, from the information they had, it was for more downforce, which is not allowed in the guidelines. This is where the issue occurred, this is why they put the protest in, the protest was rejected and was in my favour, that my reading of the rules was correct and the reason for it, as Ducati declared, was for cooling.”  

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