Horner, Dominicali: Double diffuser was our downfall

Both Red Bull and Ferrari’s team bosses are pointing to the double diffuser as the reason for Brawn GP’s success and their own failures in 2009. In separate Q&As with Autosport, Christian Horner and Stefano Dominicali both hold little back about the design element that helped the Brawn GP cars jump to such overwhelming leads in the first half of the season. First Horner; my emphasis added in both: If you reflect on the season for us, the damage was done in the first third. I think in reality, probably the double diffuser had a big impact on that. Brawn GP made hay while the sun shone and also had great consistency and reliability – and we lost too much ground in the first phase of the championship . I think since Istanbul, we...

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