Probably one of the key things there is the rear ride height. “We’ve had to go back and look at how we developed the car through the last one and two years with the side exit exhaust and try and, if you like, make sure that the routes we had taken that were only suitable for that exhaust position we now had to re-evaluate.

We designed the RB7, last year’s car, around that exhaust position and were probably the only people to do so, so it may be that we’ve lost more than other people through that” explains Newey. Whether that will affect us more than other people is difficult to know of course. “We have lost the exhaust technology with the restriction exhaust outlet position that we were able to develop and perhaps be ahead of the pack on in the last couple of years, that led to a big re think over the winter.

Save up to £33 when you subscribe and never miss an issueĬhoose from our Print, Digital and iPad editions But doing something like this in a car that I grew up watching is more special.Keep up with the latest developments in motorsport technology with Racecar Engineering, the world’s leading publication for technical insight. Doing an official F1 session, free practice last year, is the biggest achievement that I've had. 'It's completely flat through the chase, braking at 120, 130 metres. 'The first lap I was honestly so nervous, but after that it actually felt really good. Doing it in a Formula 1 car is completely crazy. 'I did one lap in the safety car this morning to get an eye for this place. 'That was probably the coolest thing I've ever done in my life,' he told the broadcast. Still, the Kiwi was left overwhelmed by his first experience of the Bathurst circuit.

However there was no record-breaking laps today, Lawson not even breaking the two-minute barrier. The benchmark was last reset way back in 2011 when Button stopped the clocks at 1m48.8s in a McLaren Formula 1 car. There was a lot of talk heading into the weekend that the demo could yield a new unofficial Bathurst lap record.

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