Horner, old fox! The dear team principal hid behind a finger making us think that the Red Bull would not bring any updating significant at least until the summer break. But the first snapshots come from the paddock of Silverstone have revealed the mystery and showed everyone the new look of RB18! The car that will try to instill fear in the Ferrari and Mattia binotto, who raised the alarm a week ago, having already understood everything.
Other than budget cap
We could call it “cap lies”. Second Christian horner il expenditure limit imposed by the FIA would have forced the team Austrian to slow down the race for developments after those already adopted in recent tenders, in particular from GP of Imola on. Red Bull in fact, at the beginning of the season he accused the excessive weight of the RB18 designed by Adrian Newey. The car needed a drastic intervention and in the races to follow came a real one revolution. Revolution which, step by step, has resulted in the current version.
La Red Bull is now the car to beat and it's not just the numbers that prove it standingsrather the constant growth of the team that hardly distances itself from its opponents. Just these last 4 races before the summer break will be crucial to reopen or close the world in favor of Ferrari o RedBull. For this reason, also in function of the design of the 2023 car, the Austrian team decided not to wait and to drop the ace at Silverstone, to take another step forward. In defiance of the budget cap.
The Red kidnaps, Red Bull streamlines
One of the novelties concerns the target primary of Red Bulls: get close to ideal weight of the 798 kilograms. To do it to RB18 it would be enough to lose about 5 more. They are not few but Red Bull manages to make it seem the most natural thing in the world. Also at Silverstone the RB18 presents itself with a slimmer line to maximize the Coanda effect – also sought after byAston Martin – in addition to some novelty in the rear sectionespecially near the engine hood. In the new RB18, behind the Halo attachments, a sort of sidewalk has also made its appearance that reaches up to the hot air vent, which from rounded has become rectangular. The classic gills instead, as you can see from the photo taken by Motorsport.com, remained but with a more horizontal inclination.
With a totally different project from that of the Ferrari Newey's men had to adopt different solutions, going to dig the back rather than that of the bellies. Another objective sought by Red Bull with these updates concerns the efficiency of the beam wing.
Red Bull and Ferrari have the two most ambitious projects of the paddock and while the Austrian stable continues to innovate at a rapid pace, the Maranello garage takes time and we discuss how and when to act. Performance is certainly not lacking, and there is still one point that plays in Ferrari's favor: qualifying where it is almost unbeatable. We'll see, however, if the updates at Red Bull have served to undermine even the last bulwark of the Red Bulls, who now need to regain victory and the trust of all the fans who have not yet lost hope of seeing a trophy arrive , if not two, in Maranello.
Source: Motorsport.com Italy
