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Originally Posted by gary
Why I raise that was that the commenters mentioned there had been
a change to The Man's front wing where it had been trimmed and
so it seems its straight line speed has been improved but at the
expense of cornering perhaps.
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Red Bull were running a MUCH smaller rear wing ("Low Down-Force") than most of the other teams, but I'm not sure how much smaller their front wing was than normal - check out this shot, for example:
http://www.formula1.com/wi/gi/597x47...s1424au257.jpg
Their strategy was to minimise their straight-line speed disadvantage compared to the Mercedes-powered cars on the high-speed Spa circuit, but amazingly, they weren't just minimising their speed disadvantage, they were actually just about the fastest cars out there! The Red Bull chassis has such good balance and "mechanical grip" that even with the big penalty on down-force, they weren't giving too much away on the twisty bits either. Adrian Newey is a racing car genius - it will be interesting to see how Red Bull cope next year when he steps back from F1.
I expect to see the Red Bulls with a similar ultra-low-down-force configuration at Monza in two weeks ...