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Renault to introduce new floor and diffuser
05 May 2009The Renault team introduced a new diffuser for Fernando Alonso car at the Chinese Grand Prix, followed by team-mate Nelson Piquet receiving the upgrade on his R29 in Bahrain; the team now hopes to introduce changed to the car's floor and diffuser at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.
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Speaking about the updates was director of engineering, Pat Symonds, who said: "The whole team is still pushing hard with development, and the diffuser and floor that we took to China was very much a first attempt; over the course of the year we will see several more versions, the first of which we hope to have in Barcelona.
"In addition, we've got new wheel fairings this weekend with quite a major design change, to give us an increase in downforce, and a new rear wing. On top of that we've got a few small aerodynamic tweaks that we will introduce on a race-by-race basis - overall, we can expect a reasonable step in performance for Barcelona.
"We weren't particularly satisfied with our performance in Barcelona during winter testing and I think that was probably because our aero performance was significantly below that of the cars with twin diffusers (Williams, Toyota and Brawn). Now that we have hopefully improved our performance with our own new-style diffuser, we certainly hope that Barcelona will be a bit more favourable for us."
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