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Pirelli have been forced to deny that teams involved in tyre testing stand to gain an advantage after comments made by Williams technical chief Pat Symonds suggested otherwise.
Symonds said that the likes of Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull gain "an enormous advantage" by being involved in the tests for the 2017 rubber.
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However, Pirelli's Mario Isola has moved to dismiss the claims, saying that every team is given the same vast amount of information.
"The teams that are not going to test will receive detailed reports, will receive all driver comments, all our analysis and some models we will develop in the next months," he said. "We will provide the same information."
"Don’t forget the tests are blind for the teams that are testing. They know they are testing tyres," he continued. "They don’t know if it is base, if it is a prototype, nor what is in in the prototype – if it is a different compound and construction. They don’t know anything."
Williams refused to take part in any 2017 Pirelli tyre tests because the Italian firm were not covering all costs.
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