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Wolff slams Horner suggestion to ban wind tunnels

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has hit out at Red Bull's suggestion that wind tunnels should be banned from formula one. As smaller teams struggle for survival, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner proposed a novel solution to help cut costs – ban the wind tunnel. The Briton's Mercedes counterpart, Wolff, scoffed at the suggestion. 'I thought Red Bull's proposal was to bring back the normally aspirated V8?' he said sarcastically to Auto Motor und Sport. 'Or maybe they looked again at the test data from Barcelona and came here with the idea of abolishing wind tunnels,' Wolff scoffed. The Austrian insisted wind tunnels are part of the DNA of F1, 'This is Formula 1. Not GP2 or a single car...
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