BMW won't bring new diffuser till Barcelona, admits Mario

By AFCA compilation
April 5 2009

As we had revealed already in a previous report, Mario Theissen has admitted than BMW won't have the double-decker diffuser ready until the Spanish GP. Renault is understood to be in a similar situation, while Ferrari is thought to be spending around 10m € on re-designing the entire rear to fit this diffuser concept, and won't have it ready until after the Spanish GP.

Regardless of the decision that will be taken on the 14th of April, BMW Sauber has started working on a similar design: ''We've started developing something like it, eventhough, like before, we don't think it's in the spirit of the rules. It costs a lot of money and we rather not go this way but we simply don't have any choice. We have to develop it in case you will definitively be allowed to use it.''

''You certainly don't come up with a well working overall solution. I wouldn't bet my life on us having this solution by the time of the Spanish GP. To be honest, I don't know either where we are in this respect. After all, it's a lot more than just the development of a diffuser. It has an influence on the entire aerodynamic concept. This requires a whole lot of development work and at the moment I cannot tell when we will be ready with a solution that is better than what we have now.''