wesley123 wrote: ↑13 Aug 2020, 18:01
But if they owned the design in 2019, how does that make said ducts 'from another team'? The weird situation that occurs here seems to be that official transfer from "bought" to "own creation" occurs when you run it in a session in the season it was allowed in.
The list part rule is along slightly different lines. It says the "competitor shall ... only use Listed Parts which are designed by it". So if you look at the rear brake ducts, the verdict was very clear, Racing Point took the Mercedes design as the starting point for their own design. They altered the dimensions slightly and made numerous other changes, but at the core of the rear brake ducts was the Mercedes design
The front brake duct is the more complex case. Racing Point successfully argued that it would be unfair to unravel every design going back to time in immemorial. Looking back in this thread highlights a number of instances where the transfer of information was permitted and common place
So the Stewards decided it was fair to set a generational clause. They would only go back in time to the last generation of car. They reasoned, this was sufficient to ensure no team gains an advantage by short cutting the design process. A team taking a part from their 2019 car and developing it in to a 2020 part under their own steam was well within the spirit of the regulation as it would (this year) take significant design effort to develop
However, if another team's design was used in the process of developing parts for 2020, then that would breach the regulation
So, the key point is to look at whether another teams design information was used directly in the design process of the 2020 part. The rear brake ducts failed that test, because although the transfer of information took place in late 2018, Racing Point dusted off that information late last year and used it as the basis of their 2020 design
Of course, the elephant in the room here are the other parts on the List Parts table, because at first glance, they also fail the test
, thank you for correcting it, just realized that 
