Thread: Red Bull's (AUT) Qualifying Advantage Solved?
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Old 26 May 2011, 12:40 (Ref:2886151)   #18
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Like EB, I was thinking about the use of the flap. Martin Brundle and DC were expressing great surprise about the amount of use Vettel could make of the flap and this could be very significant, more perhaps than the exhaust gain.
Much more I would have said. That flap creates a lot of drag, and in qualifying can be used for a lot of the lap. The EBD is only used off throttle, which isn't very much time at all. The more time spent off flap the better. (Does that sound a bit rude?)
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