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[DaveG28]

Originally Posted by Fabs

This is where I disagree.

See, the fact that they have a double decker before anyone else has at least two advantages:

First they have more chances of scoring points, and it's a long championship, and as has been shown by the last few seasons, every point is important.

Second they will have more track time than the other teams and will be ahead of them in its development, much like the diffuser 3 are now. Not only will they probably have another update by the time the other teams will introduce theirs, but they'll also be able to spend time on other areas of the car.

Also you forget the fact that the Red Bull in its actual design cannot be fitted with such a diffuser. They have two options at the moment which are either carry on their own path and ignore the double decker thing, knowing that they're not so far off them anyway, or redesign the whole rear end of the car which will take time and cost a lot of money and they will lose all the advantage of their current design, not to mention the fact that they'll have a much tougher time finding a good setup.

Some good points yeah on dev time etc, although not sure it'll take long for others to catch up (oyherwise yhe car launched first would always win!), but the Red Bull is NOT only good because of the other route it took at the rear, it's also got one of the best, if not THE best, front ends! They may well have less to gain from the diffuser, but they won't lose all their current advantage by any means!!

Ferrari could gave more trouble, they have a crap car that's also difficult to redesign!!