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The role of the R26 will be to defend the world championship - has that changed your approach to the design phase?

Tim Densham: It hasn’t affected the decisions we have made with the car. The real benefit is that we can work from a solid baseline. Rather than changing everything, we know the R25 was a good car, so we have focused on the areas that will help us improve: reviewing each component to make it better than its predecessors, in terms of weight and stiffness. The fact that the car is defending a world championship doesn’t change the maths we use to make those calculations.