Best job so far, in my opinion. Newey (and team), as ever, has looked at various means of exploiting what others appear to have seen as an inconvenienceâ¦
Craig Scarborough ‏@ScarbsF118m Red Bull RB10 analysis will be on my blog later today, lots of stuff going on http://scarbsf1.com pic.twitter.com/JHq8i3qwDP please log in to view this image Always interesting
I bet they wont even run, they'll just pack up and get another days work done in MK to sort the mess out.
My guess is that they will cut lots of cooling slots in the side pods and do a couple of installation laps just to view temps.
This. Sounds like the packaging and crank issues are fairly fundamental, so can't see what they can do overnight to cure a problem that has prevented them running more than a couple of laps at a time at speeds that wouldn't make any data collection worthwhile.
Matt Somerfield ‏@SomersF147s Red Bull @RedBullRacing RB10 from above, note the rudimentary cooling placed in the Sidepod due to the cooling issues pic.twitter.com/hoSMySpdxI please log in to view this image
Red Bull's Dietrich Mateschitz denies staff exits have hurt F1 team Mateschitz was adamant the staff changes have nothing to do with Red Bull's current plight. "The current problems arose from the engine side and not from our team, which still has the high-level know-how it needs," he said. The 69-year-old has traditionally spent a day watching winter testing since first joining F1 as Sauber's main backer in 1995. His arrival in the Jerez paddock on Thursday coincided with Daniel Ricciardo stopping on track on his first lap as a Red Bull race driver. "These teething problems came as no big surprise," said Mateschitz. "We had expected a difficult first test and now the problems have to be fixed for the Bahrain test." He added that technical chief Adrian Newey had assured him that the RB10 "is more than just state-of-the-art". "However, the truth arrives when we are all on the grid in Melbourne," Mateschitz said. "It is up to us and Renault to solve the problems and get ready. "There is no reason to be worried yet." Mateschitz believes Red Bull could afford a potential bad start to the season and still come out on top in the title race. "To be behind at the season's start does not necessarily mean you lost the championship already," he said. "You still have a chance after a few bad races in the beginning."
He added that technical chief Adrian Newey had assured him that the RB10 "is more than just state-of-the-art". This scares me. The FW14 was very problematic in the early stages, and that evolved in to the illustrious FW14b.
