Team Principal Christian Horner added, “unfortunately things didn’t work out for Mark at his home grand prix and we need to understand why. His tyre wear was also significantly greater than Sebastian’s.” Mark Webber’s RB7 seemed no match for that of his younger team mate, and the Red Bull motor sport director Helmut Marko told German television station RTL that “he had some problems with the chassis. With him, neither the hard nor the soft tyres really worked. A dominant victory was inevitable and thats what happened, however much as Newey designed cars are famed as fast they are also famed as fragile. It didn’t do anything to dent the cars performance, nothing came close to the RB7’s laptimes at Albert Park. Whilst many copy principles of his RB5 and RB6 designs, he decided to drop KERS from the RB7 at Melbourne. Once again Adrian Newey has caught out the Formula 1 engineering world. But already the marker has been laid down with the new car fastest after the first test day finished. The RB7 in roll out spec is as Newey claims a clear evolution of the RB6, abeit with the addition of Pirelli tyres, KERS and an adjustable rear wing.ĭespite its understated roll out specification the RB7 has substantial updates to come including a highly complex exhaust solution. The very tough run in to the 2010 World Championship which resulted in the teams first title. We have evolved RB6, which itself was an evolution of 2009’s RB5, and this is, if you like, the third generation of a successful lineage” explains Newey. But the RB7 may well have suffered due to the teams development being focused on the RB6 until much later than usual.

“What we have done is taken the philosophy of continuing evolution. In building on the success of last year’s championship-winning car, the mission for Red Bull Technologies engineers was to marry the field-leading pace of 2010’ RB6, while dealing with the new technical regulations.

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