The Red Bull team adviser Helmut Marko, 2012 believes that the regulation was " deliberately "designed to put an end to the sovereignty of Red Bull Racing in Formula 1.
Regulation 2012 bans blown diffusers.However, Red Bull Racing was the pioneer in this field. The RB6 and RB7 operated exhaust to supply air to the diffuser and generate more support.
As the diffuser is very effective, Adrian Newey, the brilliant technical director of the team, could make his cars look forward: the anterior wing, closer to the ground, bringing additional support, while the default a diffuser least close to the bitumen was offset by the strong flow of air generated by the exhaust.
A recipe that Newey had to give up when constructing the RB8. He therefore had to relearn how to design a car that is fast without this artifice, which he was long accustomed. As condemned Marko.
" We no longer have the superiority that we had last year, it is a fact. This is explained by the fact that several technical changes have been deliberately introduced by the FIA to curb Red Bull , "said Marko on the Austrian chain Servus TV , which belongs to the energy drink.
" But it's not an excuse for the lack of competitiveness of our car. We are not where we should be. "
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