I’d expect that they’ll be banned after this GP. Brawn will do well in qualifying but both cars will retire, no harm no foul and Brawn secure a nice sponsor for the future.
Virgin are widely reported to be within hours of announcing a sponsorship deal and the cars could be running the new colours this weekend.. Anyone spotted any Brawn Mechanics in the Aerosol Paint aisle at Aussie Halfords looking for red paint?
It’s to do with confilicting regulations on the diffuser and rear impact absorbing structures, if i’ve read correctly. They (toyota, brawn & williams) have incorporated elements of their rear diffusers into the crash structure, thereby neatly circumventing the diffuser height rules.
Good engineering design, imho.
Sure is, and Ferrari et al are just upset because they didn’t think of it and are potentially losing 0.5 seconds per lap to the Brawn design.
Roll on Sunday Morning… I can’t wait!!!! (and saturday morning for quali, and perhaps this morning coming for first practice) 🙄