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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

Working around the ban on the starter motor hole

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Attempting to further close loopholes in the regulations, the FIA have removed the possibility for teams to gain a substantial aerodynamic benefit from the starter motor hole in the diffuser. A first regulation change in this area was implemented back in 2010 after teams started to create unusually shaped starters, allowing them to make a larger starter hole in the diffuser, and thereby extract more performance from it. Back then, the FIA stepped in, allowing the hole to be no large... Read more