We can bring home points from Bahrain - Bell
This weekend the Formula One circus travels to the Kingdom of Bahrain. After the Chinese weekend, which had its ups and downs for the Renault F1 Team, Bob Bell believes that, with the new updates on the R29, the team can bring home points from Bahrain.
"We were very pleased with the basic performance of the car as we took a good step forward with the new diffuser that we fitted to Fernando’s car. We’re all very happy about that and the effort that went into producing it. Sadly we didn’t bring home the result that we hoped for, but that is more to do with the strategic approach we had to adopt and how the race unfolded."
Did the new diffuser live up to your expectations and is there more to come?"It certainly lived up to expectations and gave us the gains we expected. There is more to come as the diffuser is a very new area of development and there will be a big push to continue its development over the next few months. We’re also working on various upgrades to other parts of the car that we would normally work on at this time of year."
When will Nelson’s car have the new diffuser?"Nelson will have the new diffuser in time for Bahrain. It simply wasn’t possible to make two in time for China last weekend. I think that we did a great job to get one out to China."
The team took KERS off the car in China – will it return for Bahrain?"As we’ve already said, we will consider the merits of KERS on a race by race because it’s not a system that is categorically quicker at every track. It depends on the nature of the circuit and we will continue to assess it on a race by race basis."
What can the team achieve in Bahrain?"I think we can be quite confident that we can repeat the sort of performance we showed in China during qualifying as we now have the basic pace in the car. And if we have a dry race, I’m confident that we can bring home the points from the race to match our qualifying performance. "
