Ferrari has moved to downplay the relev🍸ance of the tyre test it carried out on behalf of Pirelli earlier this season.

Following the revelation that Mercedes had carried out a three-day test with the tyre supplier in Barcelona following the Spanish Grand Prix, it emerged that another team had also 🥂taken part in a test earlier in the year.

However, while the main issue surrounding the Mercedes test is that it was c🥂arried out using the team's 2013 car, the earlier test - involving Ferrari - took place using a 2011-spec machine.

That test was also not carried out by Ferrari's race tea💖m, but by Corse Clienti, the division of the It𒊎alian manufacturer that runs cars for private individuals over the course of the year.

As such, the 💝Ferrari test wasn't in breach of any of F1's current testing regulations, with the Italian team quick to point out it had done nothing wrong.

"For a bit more of a year there has been a possibility of performing these so-called 1,000 kms tests that Pirelli does for its own tyre development," a team spokesman told SPEED.com. "For Ferrari it has always been very clear that these tests could not make use of a 2013 car. In terms of runnඣing an old car, the matter is quite irrelevant, because it is totally within the rules.

"This is something that we have never denied; this was very transparen💯t. All the teams have this possibility. The tyres, the specification of the test, is something that Pirelli knows; not us."

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali had insisted in Monaco that the team's issue with 🙈the Mercedes test wasn't that it had taken place, but that the current car had been used.