However, extending the life of this year’s cars another 12 months could backfire in the case of a flawed concept.

“The big risk for us was while we’ve gone for a new concept car for 2020, our view was if it doesn’t work, we’re moving over to 2021 regulations anyway.

“So now we’re in a situation where the car we thought may only be good for one season is now good to do two. It’s going to be interesting when we go racing to see how it performs.”

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Racing Point has come under fire for fielding a design that is perceived as a “pink Mercedes” in reference to the car’s aerodynamic similarities with the Silver Arrows’ championship winning W10.

However, following the criticism, Green defended the team’s work, insisting that while its design approach had been similar to Mercedes, the RP20 was not the same.

Green acknowledged Racing Point’s form in pre-season testing but insisted there were still many uncertainties in terms of the relative performance of the team’s midfield rivals.

“It matched what we were expecting as far as performance was concerned,” he said.

“I think the drivers were incredibly enthusiastic about it which is great, but you’re only ever as quick as the competition will allow you to be.

“We have no view yet on the competition, but we know we’ve made a reasonable step from last year. But what step has everybody else taken, we don’t really know.

“We’re looking forward to the season when it starts, as long as we get to show our hand at multiple tracks and we don’t just stay at one track or two tracks for the whole season, then I think we’ll be fine.

“It’s going to be interesting; we definitely rolled the dice for this year with a view to if it didn’t work then we’d change regulations but I hope we’re not too far away.”

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