Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says the current championship leaders are well prepared for the exhaust-blown diffuser clampdown which takes effect from the British Grand Prix.
The ban is expected to hit Red Bull the hardest as they’re the team which has perfected the system, which utilises hot gases running over the diffuser to create extra downforce.
The Austrian though is quoted as saying by Auto Motor und Sport that the team already have ideas to negate the ban.
“We would not be Red Bull if we did not already have ideas about how to mitigate the effect [the ban will have on us].”
He believes the mid-season ban has come about to end Red Bull’s qualifying and race dominance. Sebastian Vettel has secured all but one pole position, which went to his teammate Mark Webber, whilst the German has won all but two races.
“This time it [the ban] seems to have been [introduced] in a hurry. I would say it is about [the dominance of] Red Bull.”
Whilst the majority of the grid are unsure of what effect the ban will have on the running order, many, as mentioned above, believing it will hurt Red Bull the most, Marko isn’t so sure and says McLaren, who expect to gain ground, will be similarly hurt because they copied the RB7 system ‘very well’.
“They [McLaren] copied our system very well,” but he admitted, “Ferrari never really got it under control.”
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