The Woking based team had suspected that Red Bull Racing are using a system that enables them to automatically rise the height of their car between qualifying and race – under parc ferme rules – this being currently prohibited by the FIA. Since the ruling body did not oppose to Red Bull's suspension system, McLaren vowed to use one of their own in due time.
Nevertheless, during a Vodafone McLaren phone-in, the team's engineering director Paddy Lowe admitted that McLaren have suspended all work on such a system until further clarifications will be provided by the FIA.
“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 (of the regulations), and we were reacting to that,” said Lowe, hinting that McLaren had something like this in mind for a long time, not only a few weeks ago.
“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,” added Lowe, according to Autosport.
However, he denied having used the system on the MP4-25 so far in the championship.
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