With winter testing almost behind us, there are a few teams left to complete one further attempt to get the most out of their 2007 spec packages, one of which is Red Bull Racing. While the new RB3 has improved after the first two tests of the year, it is not yet enough as the gap to the front has only been reduced from 3 down to 2 seconds.

As explained in our spies at winter testing report, the problem is that they are losing rear end downforce under braking and in the corners. The only good thing is the topspeed. It has now been discovered that the car had been designed by two groups with the rear developed by the old aero group in the new windtunnel, and the front end is an Adrian Newey product.

Newey trusted the figures from the CFD, because the new windtunnel was just too new to deliver good data, but it has now turned out that the figures from the windtunnel are not relating to the actual reality, therefore Newey and his team, revolving around Peter Prodromou, designed a complete new aero package on the CFD computers with a new frontwing, rearwing, bargeboards and undertray.

This will be tested during this week’s final test at Magny-Cours and according to the computer data the progress should be 7 or 8 tenths of a second, so there is still some hope in the Red Bull camp that they can move up into the midfield.