Eye🔜s were on Aston Martin after they i☂ntroduced their B-spec car at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Aston Martin’s car looked very similar to Red Bull’s RB18 - somethingᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ that 🧸caught the attention of Horner and the Red Bull team.

In response, Horner was pictured on the team’s p꧟it wall with a green can of Red Bull energy drink, a little dig at Aston Martin’s ‘green bull’.

The controversy didn’t last too long as Aston Martin initially still s෴truggled for performance while Red Bull romped away in the🔯 title race.

Krack d🐻enied that Aston Martin had copied Red B🍌ull during 2022.

“Frustration is the wrong word because we knew that, we anticipated that this will ♋happen,” he said. “I think we would have maybe taken it more on board if there was any truth in it. We really did our stuff.

"We knew that this might come and I think if you look back, we were quite♏ relaxed about it and there was no war of words from our side. It calmed down in the meantime and we have moved on."

Red Bull were particul♌arly concerned about it because had made the switch to Aston Martin.

Voicing his concerns at the time, Horner said: “It is quite a thing to instruct your team to come up with a very clꦆose-looking clone of our car. A few people have moved over the winter period, and what you can’t control is what they take in their heads.

“But what would be of grave concern to us would be if any IP had in any waᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy changed hands.🎃”