{"id":17361,"date":"2012-12-12T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17361"},"modified":"2012-12-12T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T12:06:15","slug":"red-bull-worried-before-2012-season-newey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-worried-before-2012-season-newey\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull ‘worried’ before 2012 season – Newey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Newey has admitted he began the 2012 season feeling “worried” about the likely performance of his latest Red Bull.<\/p>\n

\"Adrian-Newey\"Ultimately, the history books show that the energy drink-owned team has utterly dominated the past three championships, capturing every drivers’ and constructors title consecutively since 2010.<\/p>\n

But 2012, according to Red Bull’s lauded technical boss, was different.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we realised even before the season that it would take some time to understand the car,” Newey told Italy’s Autosprint magazine.<\/p>\n

“We were worried.<\/p>\n

“The problem was with the ‘blown’ exhausts that we introduced in 2010 and around which we completely designed the 2011 car.<\/p>\n

“Everything, including the position of the batteries, was based on it.”<\/p>\n

Told that he obviously resents the FIA’s exhaust rules clampdown, Newey admits: “Oh yes, because it is a restriction.<\/p>\n

“If you limit the regulations too much, for me it becomes ‘GP1’ — just a brand and not formula one.”<\/p>\n

Even ahead of the 2013 season, the FIA is still tweaking the rules to close loopholes: the next cars will, for one, pass even stricter nose flexibility tests.<\/p>\n

“You see,” Newey insists, “the fact is that the so-called ‘spirit of the regulations’ doesn’t really exist.<\/p>\n

“If you find a gap that allows you to defeat the purpose of the existing rule, but without violating the letter of the regulation, then we need to see if it is feasible.<\/p>\n

“That is the true nature of F1.\u00a0 Yes, we have found some possibilities that maybe the rules do not provide for, but are not prohibited.<\/p>\n

“It makes other people mad, but I get sick of being constantly under attack, as the reality is that the other teams and the FIA have always kept an eye on us.<\/p>\n

“But they never find any rule that we have broken.”<\/p>\n

And Newey suggested that the bleating of other teams is not only annoying, but also hypocritical.<\/p>\n

“Like the famous ‘hole in the floor’ we introduced in Bahrain,” he said.\u00a0 “At another point in the year Ferrari was running an identical solution.”<\/p>\n

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