So are you implying Brawn, Dernie, and the Williams boys haven't been innovative, or are not as innovative as those that you mentioned? I don't see how you can put names like Willis or Costa on the same level as Dernie or Brawn, or Newey.xpensive wrote:Now with the genie out of the bottle, I think we ain't seen nothing yet in terms of innovative diffusers until engineers such as Willis, Newey, Bell, Oatley and Byrne/Costa have a go.
Brawn, Toyota, and Williams undoubtedly spent many months in the wind tunnels optimising and perfecting their diffuser designs. Likewise, it will take guys like Newey at least a few months to come up with an optimal design. Plus, there is no guarantee the non-DDD teams will be able to make their cars work optimally with a double decker or triple decker design. Williams, Brawn, and Toyota all designed their cars from the ground up to work together with their unique diffusers.
The deeper question that should be asked is why "innovative" guys like Byrne, Bell, and Newey never thought of these diffuser designs in the first place, or never thought to look for loopholes in the rules like the 'Diffuser 3' managed to do.
RBR and Renault claim they had similar diffuser designs last year, but because the FIA at the time declared them illegal while not doing the same for the Toyota and Williams designs, obviously RBR and Renault missed something or got something wrong compared to Toyota and Williams.