Didn't realise a diffuser was affected as much as other forms of aero by wake from other cars?
Can see how it creates worse wake for the following cars though!
I just think (from direct experience of motorsport and arguing rules with stewards etc) that it is extremely difficult without having seen how the questions were worded to claim teams knowingly cheated and the fia deliberately stiched up Renault/Red Bull etc. The wording of the question makes a HUGE difference, and as far as I know no-one knows what that wording was??
Finally, Honda weren't always bad and it's pure bad grapes from people to claim the only good thing on the Brawn is the diffuser!!
Also, please remember the 3 teams who built diffusers were the 3 teams who weren't in the overtaking working group (so I've been told anyway) and therefore just read the rules, did not know "intent"! The whole purpose of a lot of F1 design is to take advantage of gaps in the rules to get an advantage, and these teams did that! No team can claim these deliberately cheated but also then say they themselves asked to, so Renault are saying they tried to cheat but got told no!!?? "That team have deliberately cheated". "Its not fair, we asked to do that but got told no". Errr wake up any team saying this, how can the other team have deliberately cheated if you thought it was ok too until the fia said no???
With dev time, in case anyone forgot Brawn had bugger all pre-season, so bigger all development of setup time etc. The reason for interim solutions is because design time is needed, once the full diffusers are on the cars there shouldn't be much difference due to ongoing development through the season (at a guess) as Brawns worked straight away!! Renault/Mclaren need to make hay from getting designs sorted quicker!!
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