Maybe I’m overthinking this but does anybody else think that Red Bull has essentially built the same car concept that Mercedes has had for most of the turbo-hybrid era
Hear me out, for the last 8 years , Red Bull has a outstanding chassis , with a lack of raw power , so they compensated with a high drag car to gain back time in the corners.
Mercedes on the other und has always had a power advantage until last year and so built a car with relatively low drag , high top end speed at the slight cost of cornering , knowing that you can only really overtake with DRS, having good acceleration and top speed , you could be slower in the corners and still be ahead.
So this year Red Bull has a car with a power advantage , low drag and high top end speed , all of which means the Ferrari is significantly faster in the twisty bits , but even with DRS, the RB pulls a gap in the straights , just like Mercedes used to and therefore , try as he might Leclerc simply can’t get passed