2 videos of the new car here
.Max Verstappen makes first meters in new car
By Erik van Haren
Max Verstappen made his first meters on Friday at the Silverstone circuit in the RB19, his car for the upcoming Formula 1 season.
The two-time world champion and his teammate Sergio Pérez came into action during a filming day of his team Red Bull Racing. In total, a maximum of one hundred kilometers may be covered and driving on demo tires. It is an opportunity for the team to check all systems and really test the car on the asphalt for the first time. Red Bull is expected to release images of the secret test at a later date.
For Verstappen, the film day at Silverstone, not far from the Red Bull factory in Milton Keynes, has become a well-known prelude to the start of the season. The test days in Bahrain will follow on 23, 24 and 25 February. More than a week later, on March 5, the first Grand Prix of the year is scheduled there.
Red Bull's sister team, AlphaTauri, has scheduled a filming day at the Misano circuit in Italy on Tuesday 14 February. The racing team with drivers Nyck de Vries and Yuki Tsunoda will present the new car – the AT04 – in New York next Saturday.
They just pushed the RB18 out and used that instead of designing a whole new car haha.
Yes. The 620 was "testing grounds" for the plating process. Although it had a good track record with motorcycle engines, a higher compression, boosted ICE is not the same. The wear was much better than expected and provided additional confidence to move ahead with a new block design and manufacturing process.godlameroso wrote: ↑10 Feb 2023, 15:22
Was the change facilitated indirectly by the cylinder plating?
That is good to hear.. balance is probably much more to his preference then
You are reading way too much into his comments… A filming day before testing is simply a systems check, everything works, the car runs without any major issues, therefore everything went “smooth”… They also use the though for it’s actual intended purpose, which is to film the car for promotional reasons… We will see several videos later on of the car at Silverstone, followed by a camera car, a drone, etc.
I'm well aware of all of the logistics/limitations of a filming day.. but max himself has in the past said in other interviews when asked about filming day that you can feel the balance and general feel of the car even in the limited running that you getSmallSoldier wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 09:02You are reading way too much into his comments… A filming day before testing is simply a systems check, everything works, the car runs without any major issues, therefore everything went “smooth”… They also use the though for it’s actual intended purpose, which is to film the car for promotional reasons… We will see several videos later on of the car at Silverstone, followed by a camera car, a drone, etc.
They haven’t done any performance runs, tuning, setup or anything of the sort in a filming day… That’s what testing is for… Could it be better than the RB18, sure… They have a great base and most probably it will be a great car, but today’s running won’t let them make an assessment.
They said that when the season was ending… No mention of issues after their filming day… Even when they weren’t actually driving the real W13 at that stage, no mention of any issues… Even McLaren who started the season with one of the worst performing cars in Bahrain didn’t said anything negative after the filming day (they actually were trying hard to lower expectations after Barcelona where everyone, including the “pundits” where praising them.organic wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 09:07I'm well aware of all of the logistics/limitations of a filming day.. but max himself has in the past said in other interviews when asked about filming day that you can feel the balance and general feel of the car even in the limited running that you getSmallSoldier wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 09:02You are reading way too much into his comments… A filming day before testing is simply a systems check, everything works, the car runs without any major issues, therefore everything went “smooth”… They also use the though for it’s actual intended purpose, which is to film the car for promotional reasons… We will see several videos later on of the car at Silverstone, followed by a camera car, a drone, etc.
They haven’t done any performance runs, tuning, setup or anything of the sort in a filming day… That’s what testing is for… Could it be better than the RB18, sure… They have a great base and most probably it will be a great car, but today’s running won’t let them make an assessment.
And last season Russell said that from the first lap in the filming day he knew something was wrong with the car (perhaps due to it feeling so different to the simulator - first warning sign of a correlation error), so you know these things aren't that black and white as you are suggesting
https://www.planetf1.com/news/mercedes- ... lming-day/
Here's shovlin echoing that