With just two days of pre-season testing remaining before the start of the F1 season in Australia,
Red Bull has introduced a raft of new upgrades onto the RB8 for Saturday running in Barcelona.
Both
Mark Webber and
Sebastian Vettel had hinted that there were changes to come with the car following the first two days of running at the Catalunya circuit, with a revised RB8 taking to the track this morning with Webber at the wheel.
“We've had our first glimpse of the new parts on the
Red Bull and it's effectively a completely new car,” technical analyst Gary Anderson told
BBC Sport. “The chassis is the same, I'm sure, but there's a new front wing and a completely redesigned underfloor and coke-bottle area at the back.
“The exhaust exits are fairly far forward but there is a down-feeding duct behind them and an inlet on the top of the floor. It seems they're trying to get the exhaust flow down into that inlet to feed the diffuser.
"The first impressions are that the
Red Bull is a really nicely detailed car - there are ducts and bits and pieces everywhere. It's a very complicated bodywork set-up and it will take some more looking at to understand what's going on.”
The majority of the field is set to introduce new parts over the weekend as final preparations are made for the opening round of the year in Australia in just two weeks time.