NL_Fer wrote:Looking at momentum, Mercedes and Redbull are the ones to beat 2017. But one thing that bothers me, Redbull has only been succesfull in the low-DF era. The pre '09 cars weren't special. But in that period they were just starting the team. Still a slight chance of McL and Scuderia coming back strong with a classic high-DF car.
Kinda of unfair, the team ran 05 and 06 basically with the Jaguar scraps.
2007 was essentially the first year that the structure Red Bull put in place was responsible for anything and they were coming from a long way back, in 08 the main team was hampered by a weak engine, the B team with a chassis always lagging behind in development was doing quite well.
Essentially just 2 years, coming from a long way behind coupled with extra issues.
Plus the fact that with the big 09 changes already on the horizon it wouldn't make much sense to go for broke in 08, the car was an evolution and the team needed to split resources.
Red Bull was improving, it simply wasn't enough time.