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Red Bull called for ban on fins

Last week, as the cars were unveiled one after another, the size and ugliness of the dorsal fins grew. Thankfully, that adorning the Mercedes wasn't too bad, and then today the German team followed the example of its rivals and went full-sail. Speaking to reporters as testing got underway at Barcelona, Red Bull boss Christian Horner admitted that not only is his team against the fins, it tried to have them out-lawed. 'I think the cars look fantastic,' he said, 'the only thing that lets them down is the shark fins. 'It's something that we raised at the Formula One Strategy Group meeting last year, to ask that all teams remove them,' he continued, 'because it is pretty marginal the...
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