Red Bull RB7 Renault

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H. Zedozil
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The rear end is way smaller than RB6 right?

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Look at where the rear wishbones are connected to the chassis/gearbox!

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H. Zedozil wrote:The rear end is way smaller than RB6 right?
Looks like it tapers like the Sauber and Renault, keeping the vertical size to make a tighter rear horizontally.

Visually the car looks quite long which would help create more space at the rear, but we'll have to wait for the side by side shots to appear before we can tell one way or the other.

Can anyone see where the exhausts are?

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Looks like they're trying to bring the centre of mass forward

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imightbewrong wrote:(click for high res)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qFPsWl.jpg[img]
What's going on under the front suspension?
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Ok the exhausts are on the floor in roughly the same location as before. You can see the heat resistant panel in the floor.

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imightbewrong wrote:(click for high res)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qFPsWl.jpg[img]
How did they managed to fit everything in there? will they use KERS this year? Oh man...I'm impressed :D
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interesting that merc have the v ridges of the rb6 while the rb7 is more rb5-like
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Very close to what Scarbs had predicted..a cut sharkfin.
A very very clear rear end

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From Adam Cooper's blog: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/02/01/red- ... -valencia/

He's updating as we speak, so if you come back later it might have more pics
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so are we expecting the RB7 to absolutely dominate quali right away? I remember thinking how the RB6 looks similar to the RB5 and that other teams should have closed the gap a bit but that was far from the truth, it dominated... I have the feeling this will be the same.

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Why does it have those black patches where the "Red Bull" logo is on the back end of the sidepods? The exhaust exits way below...
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WOW, the RB7 looks stunning!!! =D>

If you have a look at this pic:

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it looks like the exhaust plume is aimed around the outside of the rear wing thru channels above the diffuser.
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