Newey described the new rules as the biggest change since flat-bottomed cars were introduced in 1983.

BBC: Red Bull expect wins from new car

However, modifying the Adrian Newey-designed Red Bull around the new diffuser could take several weeks.

BBC: Red Bull considering new diffuser

Technical director Adrian Newey never agreed with the plan not to produce an all-new car for the start of 2004.

BBC: Remarkable turnaround

And Horner believes his design team, led by the highly-regarded former Williams and McLaren engineer Adrian Newey, are in a good position to capitalise.

BBC: Red Bull expect wins from new car

Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey says the team are already thinking about their 2012 car, while adding that he cannot see himself working anywhere else.

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Newey's new car was one of the year's most eagerly anticipated: he is regarded as one of F1's most innovative designers, as well as the most highly paid.

BBC: Red Bull expect wins from new car

"We've tidied up some bits we thought could be improved upon -- but as is usual these days, this is a car in transition, " said Newey at the RB9's launch.

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Red Bull's designer Adrian Newey admitted that Webber was absolutely gutted to miss the championship in 2010, so much so that he brought some of that negative feeling into the next season.

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Dr. Glen Newey, a professor of politics at Britain's Keele University, told CNN that politicians telling whoppers often act as barometers of functioning democracy, indicating that a demanding press and public are capable of steering politicians into stormy seas.

CNN: Can politicians be trusted?

And, says Newey, the fact that untruths have been so readily uncovered in Hungary are a positive health check for a country that only held its first elections in 1990 after emerging from a Soviet regime that brutally suppressed a popular uprising almost exactly 50 years ago.

CNN: Can politicians be trusted?