The Diffuser-Three have it their way ! The verdict of the court is out – and they have decided to uphold the steward’s decision. The diffuser used by the BrawnGP, Toyota and Williams have been declared legal. Its now up to the remaining seven teams to spend millions on a new design to catch up these three, else drop any chances of poduim finish.
After months of speculaitons and arguements, the matter was presented to the court on the 14th of April. 8 hours of deliberations followed. The court announed its conclusion the next day ruling in favour of the Diffuser-Three.
The news must have been a relief to Ross Brawn. It is learnt that he had brought to notice of the officials last summer a few rules which, unless clarified, could be used by a few teams to gain advantage. The officials thought otherwise, the outcome of which is the devision in the field 3-to-7.
As the designer of Red Bull said, it is extremely important to spend money designing the new diffuser without which there are no chances of survival.
And adding a new diffuser isn’t simple either. A lot of aero chances have to be made to incorporate the new design. It will need to be tested too. Needless to say, the teams will have to spare a lot of resources to get the new design. Realistically speaking, the teams might not be able to come up with the new design fitted into their cars before the Monaco GP.
McLaren though have got a head start. They are already racing the Chinese GP with an intermediate-diffuser design. And it seems to be working. Atleast Hamilton managed to stay at P1 for the first free practise. Though the afternoon wasn’t good enough, he could manage only 12 in the second free practise.
We have already seen how quick the BrawnGP is. It is foolish to race against these cars with the present diffuser. All the teams will have to switch to the new diffuser as soon as possible. Until then, Button will continue dominnating the field. We might be able to watch proper races only when the grid moves to Europe. Until then, all the Ferrari fans – hang on.
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