Red Bull and Other Renault Teams Continue to Struggle at Jerez Formula 1 Test

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Published: January 30, 2014

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Renault-engined cars continued to struggle on the third day of Formula One preseason testing at Jerez.

Reigning world champions Red Bull completed just three laps before Daniel Ricciardo's car was confined to the garage. Caterham did 10 laps, none of them timed.

Only Toro Rosso managed a decent run, getting in 30 laps—but the car proved highly unreliable, causing two session stoppages. Their quickest lap time was almost seven seconds slower than the best of the day.

Renault admitted yesterday that they had identified a problem with their energy store (ERS battery) telling Autosport:

You have to bear in mind that a power unit is made up of a lot of sub components, and it is not a matter of one of them not working.

It is clearly a problem of integration of all these systems.

In particular, for this problem, we had to fix the problem through the energy store—but I am not going to go into detail due to the nature of the architecture of our system.

But today that was supposed to be fixed, and the blame—down at Red Bull at least—is being placed squarely on the team's shoulders. Autosport's technical expert Gary Anderson revealed that Red Bull's electronic installation is (apparently) the problem this time:

The technical rumour mill in the paddock suggests that Renault is less than pleased with Red Bull's installation of the control electronics in its 2014 car.

Changing an installation like this is not easy because there simply is not any spare space left over in a car, which means if this is at the root of the problem Red Bull will almost certainly have to make a fix work with what space it has.



The packaging problem is thought to relate to cooling—specifically, that the ERS system isn't receiving enough of it.

Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey is known for trying to package his cars ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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