Red Bull RB18 Speculation Thread

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Herr_Koos wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 20:32
Slo Poke wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 17:45
Rikhart wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 16:49
Not wishing to continue with off-topic, but how can anyone be fooled by that photo, just look at the very basic grass 3d model below...
My only excuse Rikhart is wishful thinking. Personally I consider the 2022 cars to be insanely ugly, illogical, dysfunctional and anything else you can think of, to throw at them! The fool things are nothing short of an insult to what formula one teams and their car designers have been producing for decades and on which rests the culminated excitement of last year’s racing. All of which is about to be basically binned because of one very stupid person’s ridiculously stupid effort to improve overtaking. If the car behind is having trouble maintaining front downforce improve the downforce of that car, for instance, all cars! Simply put the front wings behind the front wheels adjustabley mounted on carbon fibre box beams attached mid-way between the front wheels. That, to me would make sense. Aesthetically, less debris, concentrated air off the inside front wheel on turn-in, improved ground effect control and something to latch a VG on.
I’m sixty seven years old and silly toys fail to attract my interest.
Personally I think it's premature to make that sort of judgement until we've watched a few races. Far from producing spec cars, we've seen incredibly interesting design variations, and I suspect the actual RB18 will feature yet more unique solutions to discuss. The cars look much better to me than I thought they would, and can't wait to see them on track.
You’re very probably quite right Herr Koos! I was simply venting off frustration. I too shall watch at least the first two or three races but if I don’t see a car, or cars, that can be raced by some degree of talent, that will be that for me.

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Only footage of the shakedowns so far. I can't tell for sure due to the quality, but it looks like the nose actually is a weird shape. It looks like it is low and flat based on the yellow part of it.

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The nose is supposed to look like a "shark"?
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Downwash sidepods like on the AT's car.
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So much for the camouflage livery claims...

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yea that tweet was just a crock of ...
the screengrab isn't from that particular video though since that is just 1 second long?

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There seems to be something weird going on with the engine cover, it has a sawtooth profile.

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Another pic from @Scarbs:

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The sharkfin on this image looks very strange

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For what it is worth, the front half doesn't look too spectacular, but the rear packaging looks :shock:, unless it is a distorsion of the photo. But for now lets assume it is very tight packaged and definitely very interesting.

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What's going on with the rearmost part of the engine cover? Looks almost like a wing in front of the rear wing, but I seriously doubt that was allowed by the regulations.

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I tried to highlight what I can see.

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now who would have thought, at and rb with same concepts... im sure the other teams will love this...

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