Formula 1 Red Bull, Brawn GP cars?

May be...

I think that it is more along the lines of Ferrari and McLaren fighting for the championship last year and neglecting development of the 2009 car.
While other teams such as the ones you mention had no hope last year so they spent their time in developing cars for the new season and rules.
Now its true that Brawn have a diffuser that supposedly gives about a half second a lap advantage and now that it has been declared legal, all the other teams will be re-designing their cars to suit.
Now Red Bull have no diffuser - they just have a genuinely fast car with advanced suspension design.
Red Bull's engineer said that it is going to be a headache for them to redesign the car to incorporate the diffuser.
Let's see what happens next.
This is a great link from another post on this forum:
http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/m...

As far as Brawn is concerned, it seemingly has to do with several points;
The diffuser seems to be a big help (I'm still not sure why, but then I don't have a firm grasp on the details of how it works to give the added grip that Ferrari and McLaren and others didn't pick up on).
Also for Brawn, it's Brawn himself. An innovator. A think-outside-the-box kind of guy. His history with Honda says loads, doesn't it?

As for Red Bull, I'm honestly not sure. They changed their diffusers, too. Maybe it also has something to do with the adage "make hay while the sun shines." Maybe they're just at the right place at the right time and are profiting by that, along with their new diffuser.

For both of these teams, it sure doesn't hurt that they have a leg up on most of the rest of the field with the diffuser coup.

Brawn have been working on their car since last year and the redbull team have Adrian Newey and a massive budget. They also had DC and Webber to help develop their car. Ferrari and Mclaren probably haven't spent as much time into developing their 2009 car because they were busy fighting each other last year. Still the Mclaren guys, amidst all the turmoil within the team, seem to have developed a better car than the Ferrari boys.

Anyone know how the Brawn and Red Bull cars are pacing much faster than those of Ferrari and McLaren. I can't seem to understand where the huge difference in results could be.77 dodge power wagon new parts