John Noble

My simple answer is no.

No, well, you're right.

Yeah, but you have to remember this wasn't a traditional season of car development in terms of you bring a new front wing with more downforce, rear wing with downforce.

It was a really innovative season of ideas.

We'd come out of the double diffuser stage.

with the Braun air, which everyone had adopted.

And then going into the 2010 season, everyone thought this was a key area of exploitation.

So Ferrari had got their angled, they'd got an angled engine and gearbox to maximise the air at the back and forth.

This was the key.

We've got tonnes of downforce here.

It's brilliant.

But at the same time, Red Bull, as everyone has spotted in pre-season testing, has started messing around with blown diffusers, really critical.

And McLaren, obviously F-duct, blown rear wings, all those elements.

So there were three separate,

kind of technology wars going on.

And it quickly became clear that unless you were across all three of them, you weren't going to be successful.

And Ferrari, you know, had gone down the blown diffuser route, then needed to get on with its blown rear wing, F-duct, and the blown diffuser.

So it's just a case of when it could get these on the car, and once it did, the performance would come.

And that's basically the story of their season.

So at this stage, I think they'd started –