Red Bull must alter the front nose of the RB10, after Adrian Newey exploited a loophole in the 2014 Formula 1 rules. Keen-eyed observers noticed throughout the winter and again when the race season began that the RB10 did not have the mandatory camera mountings installed as per normal. A closer look at the nose revealed that a tiny hole for the television camera lens had been cut between the Casio and Pirelli logos in the nose. The rules say the mountings must not be located inside the carbon structure itself, but Newey's loophole is that the camera was in fact inside the non-structural ‘vanity panel' introduced last year to hide the unseemly nose steps. But while it satisfied the...
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