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| F1: Red Rag need a bigger aero jump |
by Spudgun
16th Sep 2008 |
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Red Rag will need to make a bigger improvement to their car's aerodynamics if they hope to keep pace with Tonkatoyota and Yellow, according to the less destructive of their drivers, Mark Cobber.
With engine development frozen this season - and the members of Red Rag's engine department similarly frozen in a cryogenic facility to help reduce costs while retaining expertise - the main improvement that any team can make is to their car's aerodynamics.
"Traditionally, I think with F1 cars a lot of the gains come from aero," Cobber told ITV. "During the season the cars don't change a huge amount chassis-wise, not since Takuma Gungho dropped out of F1 anyway.
"There are little gearbox things here and there but with the engine freeze allegedly going on at the moment it's hard to find improvements in that area, apart from making the little gearbox things stay inside the little gearbox.
"Aerodynamics is where our car has improved a lot from last year and my team-mate David Coldtyres has been doing his best to help us, mainly by knocking some of the more fragile bodywork off our rivals' cars, but in the last few races we've seen teams jump away from us and probably a lot of that is down to aero."
Once again missing its chance to change its reputation for enthusiastically grasping the wrong end of the stick, dotdotdotcomma's research department contacted Nestlé, makers of the popular Aero chocolate bar, for a statement.
"We would recommend that consumers avoid a combination of Red Bull and Aero," said a spokesman, "as there's a slight danger of causing bubble overload in the digestive tract, which can lead to extreme levels of anti-social flatulence.
"This is very rare, however, and the only case on record is Mathias Olaf Uncertain's brother-in-law."
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