Newey: “New rules, key to success for Red Bull F1 Team”
Adrian Newey claims that the new regulations have been the one of the factors that helped Red Bull win the F1 Constructors’ Championship in 2010.
Red Bull Racing is now the constructors’ champion of the 2010 F1 season, one Grand Prix before the end of the season, after the Sebastian Vettel – Mark Webber “one – two” in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
In the last decade the world title was mostly won by the teams supported by the constructors, so to success of a private team like Red Bull Racing is a surprise. A surprise which, in the opinion of the Chief Technical Officer, Adrian Newey, is primarily owed to radical change of the technical regulations in 2009.
“I think we have been fortunate in a way in that the rules are still to some extent in their infancy. We are the second year into a very big set of regulation changes and with some fairly significant winter changes this year, and that helps to differentiate.If you can come up with fresh ideas, new ideas that steal a march then that happens. If you get to a position where we got to at the end of 2008 where we were many years into very stable regulations then it becomes very difficult to find new avenues,” said the 50 years old Brit.
His statements are covered by the statistics of the results Red Bull Racing had in their 6 years of activity in F1. So, at their Formula 1 debut, in 2005, Red Bull F1 Team got 34 points, for one year later to only get 16 points, of which 6 thanks to a podium in Monaco. In 2007 and 2008 they won 24 and 29 points respectively, with one podium per season, but also in 2008 they were beaten by the little sister, Toro Rosso.
New rules have been introduced in 2009 and it was a real breath of fresh air for the team, getting 6 wins, 6 places two and 4 places three, adding 5 pole-positions, finishing the season with 153.5 points. The performances have culminated with the F1 Constructors’ Championship won in 2010, at the end of 8 victories, 6 places two and 5 place three, as the team started form pole 14 times.
Among the new regulations we remind the KERS system, adjusting front wing during races, or the prime – option tire rule, and some of the teams introduced their double-diffusers. In 2010 FIA banned the refueling during races. In the same year, McLaren implemented the F-duct system and Red Bull pioneers the blown rear diffuser.
Via: Autosport