Listen to this article The German car manufacturer revealed a radical new concept ahead of the start of the Bahrain test, using the Side Impact Structures (SIS) as separate fins to help shrink its sidepod bodywork further back to be much smaller than anyone else. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner was quoted as saying by German publication Auto Motor und Sport that he had doubts about the design being within the ‘spirit’ of the regulations. However, his team intriguingly later denied that Horner had given any interviews to media about the Mercedes car. Even though there has been intense focus on the sidepod design, Wolff said that the concept has been given the all-clear by the FIA. “The process is very clear, when you go in a specific development direction with your team, having the FIA as part of scrutinising it, you’re exchanging CAD data and making them part of the process,” he said in Bahrain. But irrespective of the FIA giving the green light to the design, the governance s …