From GMM
F1 teams had little time between Turkey and Canada to prepare their cars and then transport them to Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Sauber team manager Beat Zehnder said the spanner in the works was a delay in the equipment's return from Istanbul to the Italian port city of Trieste.
"The ferry did not arrive as planned on Wednesday afternoon, but only at night. The cars were not at Hinwil until Thursday, and even later for the English (based) teams. On Saturday the serviced cars were sent by air to Montreal," he revealed in Auto Motor und Sport.
A walk in the Montreal pitlane on Wednesday proved that all the cars are safely inside the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve garages -- and that Renault has a new suspension layout for the Canadian event.
Several more races could pass before Red Bull is ready to race a McLaren-style F-duct system.
The Austrian team tested an early prototype of the downforce-stalling concept during the practice sessions in Turkey, but it is believed the F-duct will not re-appear at all this weekend in Montreal.
According to Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, the subsequent Valencia and Silverstone rounds might also pass without a race-able version of the F-duct fitted to Mark Webber or Sebastian Vettel's RB6 cars.
The report said the German round at Hockenheim could be the earliest possible qualifying and race debut for the Red Bull F-duct. Before then, new iterations of the Turkey-specification F-duct could be tested in practice as soon as the forthcoming European grand prix at Valencia late this month.
F1 teams had little time between Turkey and Canada to prepare their cars and then transport them to Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Sauber team manager Beat Zehnder said the spanner in the works was a delay in the equipment's return from Istanbul to the Italian port city of Trieste.
"The ferry did not arrive as planned on Wednesday afternoon, but only at night. The cars were not at Hinwil until Thursday, and even later for the English (based) teams. On Saturday the serviced cars were sent by air to Montreal," he revealed in Auto Motor und Sport.
A walk in the Montreal pitlane on Wednesday proved that all the cars are safely inside the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve garages -- and that Renault has a new suspension layout for the Canadian event.
Several more races could pass before Red Bull is ready to race a McLaren-style F-duct system.
The Austrian team tested an early prototype of the downforce-stalling concept during the practice sessions in Turkey, but it is believed the F-duct will not re-appear at all this weekend in Montreal.
According to Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, the subsequent Valencia and Silverstone rounds might also pass without a race-able version of the F-duct fitted to Mark Webber or Sebastian Vettel's RB6 cars.
The report said the German round at Hockenheim could be the earliest possible qualifying and race debut for the Red Bull F-duct. Before then, new iterations of the Turkey-specification F-duct could be tested in practice as soon as the forthcoming European grand prix at Valencia late this month.