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Red Bull follows FIA request to adapt camera mountings

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Red Bull Racing have finally had to abandon their camera mounts inside the nose cone after the FIA requested a modification. It appears that FOM was not all that happy about Red Bull's layout, making it impossible to have a sideways or rear facing camera within the mounting. After the front facing view was found insufficient as well, Red Bull already made a modification to the camera aperture in Spain, but have now had to abandon the layout.

Instead, the RB10 now features "tradition... Read more

Red Bull debuts new drag cutting rear wing endplate

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Among the many updates present on various cars at Melbourne, Red Bull certainly has one of the more interesting as the RB10 features a brand new rear wing endplate, including a new solution to reduce the drag induced by the rear wing.

The previously common solution, as seen on the inset, was to add gills on the high pressure side of the rear wing. These gills allowed some air to bleed off from the high pressure area in between the endplates to end up on the outer sides of the endpla... Read more