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New Red Bull is 'aggressive' design - Newey

Red Bull Racing chief technical officer Adrian Newey says his latest F1 car, the Red Bull RB5 is an aggressive design and that his team will have benefited from spending more time on the drawing board and less time on the track so far this winter.

"It is an aggressive design, quite different to anything that's gone before and hopefully that is down to sound engineering reasons," Newey said. "You need the discipline not just to come up with ideas, but also to ensure that they really do give something positive in performance terms, rather than just doing it to be different. That's what we've tried to do with RB5."

"While we've obviously looked at photos of the other cars, we haven't had time to study them, so there is no advantage in those terms, but the extra time has allowed us to refine some of our own solutions," he added. "We are smaller in terms of manpower than some other teams and therefore we have had less wind tunnel time and so the extra time has been spent making up for our different level of resources."

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