Barcelona - Schumi amazed as a Ferrari advisor at the Circuit de Catalunya, and he Ross Brawn (who knows 54) but only too well.
His old head of technology driving the 1-Euro-team competition into the ground. Brawn once again from all the trick!
The Briton hooked as Honda team boss already in early 2008, the faulty RA106 (with 14 championship points, Last) from set designers and Loïc Bigois to the study of the new aerodynamic rules. The result is the rapid BGP001 from the state - and the moves in the gray areas of the regulations. Brawns specialty.
EXPRESS airs the speed Geheimis: It's in the diffuser! The high-drawn on the rear underbody is because of the clipped wings for 2009, much more important work required for the pressure. The body FIA set a maximum height of 175 mm.
Even bolder than before Toyota and Williams, whose controversial double-deck structures, the FIA absegnete, Brawn designed a curved diffuser. The virtually sucks the stern on the tarmac. Episode: Jenson Button (29) is an incredible 2.5 seconds quicker than world champion Lewis Hamilton (24).
His McLaren Mercedes team designed to brave the 175 mm height of a straight diffuser edge and now has an output problem. Timo Glock (25), emphasizes the just half a second behind Button Taoyotas role as Geheimfavorit analyzed: "It looks like they have too little downforce on the rear." What a palaver! Button, however, he makes the right jeck: "All the effort was worth it, and we can be very proud."
But doubts remain. Sebastian Vettel (21) says: "If this happens with the right things that are in Melbourne lonely at the top." And, Renault team boss Flavio Briatore assumed: "There are teams that do not respect the spirit of the regulations. They assemble these diffusers, which were forbidden to us, because they are vulnerably compliant. "Names he mentions are not (yet) ...
