Newey: 'We carry everything apart from the radiators'

"No, not at all. No I mean the underlying architecture of the car is the third generation evolution of what started as RB18. Where we carry everything apart from the radiators, they've changed", said the British engineer. The RB20 has almost no sidepods, something we saw Mercedes try earlier with the W13.

Newey sums it up, "That the bits that are visible, and have obviously caused quite a lot of attention. Obviously pursuing aerodynamic gaines there, but the the visual change is actually much much larger than the performance change you get from that, and the other much more subtle bits that people haven't noticed that are probably responsible for a bigger gain."

Damon Hill compared Red Bull to a good detergent: it does its job, on whatever surface. The cars performed well on basically all types of circuits over the last two years.

"That's very kind of him, isn't it? That's very descriptive. That's what we tried to achieve. We've tried to achieve is a car that is reasonably well suited to all circuits. I think typically last year our circuits, that we had less of an advantage on, were the maximum downforce street tracks. Singapore obviously famously made a bit of a mess of, underperformed to what we could have achieved. I think we could have certainly achieved podiums there if we got our act together a bit better. But it's certainly true to say that those circuits are the ones that we probably have less advantage on. But as long as we're not disastrous on them, then maybe that's good enough," he concludes.