Zitat BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson in Jerez
"I've had my first look in the flesh at the new Ferrari this morning and I have to say it does look like quite a nice car. It's very tidy, with lots of good-looking stuff on it. And good impressions of the McLaren continue, too. Some bits were missing at the launch last week, such as the turning vanes under the car; they've all been added now and all look effective. Those are the two cars that stand out for me at the moment. With the Red Bull, I have to say it's hard to tell any differences between it and last year's car at the moment, apart from the step on the nose and a little duct they have running through it from bottom to top. I'm not seeing a lot of stuff that looks like a big step forward, but I am on the Ferrari and the McLaren. I am told, though, there is a big rear bodywork update coming for the final test - but I haven't had that confirmed yet."
Zitat BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson in Jerez
"In addition to the chassis-top ridges Andrew has just mentioned below, Red Bull have also adopted a technology used by Sauber last year. If you look carefully, you can see a small slot behind the step on the top of the chassis. This connects up to a duct underneath the chassis, and sucks air through it. It is a good way of giving the front wing more room to work, and of tidying up the airflow on the top of the nose, too. Again, it's a small difference, but F1 design is about finding lots of small differences to make a big one."
ZitatBBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson: "The new Red Bull might not look that different from the old one, but there is one obvious feature that stands out - the top of the chassis. Behind the 'step' on the top of the nose, there are ridges along the edge of the chassis top virtually right back to the cockpit. These are aimed at stopping air spilling over the sides of the nose into the area in front of the sidepods - and therefore disrupting the airflow from the front of the car which the designers want to accelerate around the sidepods towards the rear. The faster the air goes, the more downforce it creates. The spillage is only small, but small bits add up. It's typical of Red Bull designer Adrian Newey to pursue this feature, which I don't believe is on the McLaren or Ferrari, and it continues a theme that goes right back to the beginning of this generation of Red Bulls in 2009. All of them have had ridges along the top of the chassis."
The Frenchman didn't leave the pits for the first hour and still has just eight laps under his belt in the E21, but he's just improved to a 1m21.175s, which keeps him third. The car looks particularly quick in the first sector, where it tops the speed trap.
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