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Red Bull presents RB3

At Circuit de Catalunya the Red Bull Racing team today presented their 2007 contender to the media: The RB3. Together with the team's race drivers David Coulthard and Mark Webber, test drivers Michael Ammermueller and Robert Doornbos the team showed their new car, which was designed by Adrian Newey.

The design process has been led by Red Bull Technology's Chief Technical Officer, Adrian Newey, who looks back over the months leading up to launch. "One example that illustrates how much more complicated F1 cars have become over the last decade is shown by the fact that I joined McLaren in 1997 on 1 August and we had a brand new car out in February 1998," said Newey. "In contrast, I joined Red Bull in January 2006 and we are only just getting the new car out on time in 2007. This reflects the greater level of research that now goes on in F1 compared to nine or ten years ago."

"With RB3, we didn't get the model of the car into the wind tunnel until June 2006, which was a lot later than we would really have wanted. That made for a very busy time prior to hitting the key release dates for fundamentals like the monocoque and the gearbox. This had nothing to do with the uncertainty over what engine we were going to run this year. In terms of engine choice, most of the current V8s are broadly similar in terms of installation, so there isn't a big difference in design philosophy depending on which engine you choose."

"The timing was influenced by the fact that what the team is trying to do for 2007 is a bit different to what's been done in the past. That brought with it its own lead times, also influenced by the need to commission a new wind tunnel in Bedford. All the development of the new car has been done at the Bedford facility, but its commissioning was only completed as we began with the new car. We ran the old car in Bedford just to do a systems check on the tunnel immediately prior to putting the new car model in."

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