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Checo says he is comfortable in the rb19 and happy with the car in press conference and also that both drivers still pushing in same direction with feedback/development



https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... se-rennen/

AMuS suggests that rumour from RB camp is that without the engines being turned down and the engineers giving deltas to the drivers there could've been 1s/lap even more pace

The gap could have been even clearer. After the second pit stop, the control center ordered its drivers to stick to the specified times. Verstappen and Sergio Perez reduced engine power with about ten laps to go. From the Red Bull camp it was said that otherwise you would have driven one second per lap faster.

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Checo says he is comfortable in the rb19 and happy with the car in press conference and also that both drivers still pushing in same direction with feedback/development

https://youtu.be/kmbRq0X57LA?t=262

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... se-rennen/

AMuS suggests that rumour from RB camp is that without the engines being turned down and the engineers giving deltas to the drivers there could've been 1s/lap even more pace

The gap could have been even clearer. After the second pit stop, the control center ordered its drivers to stick to the specified times. Verstappen and Sergio Perez reduced engine power with about ten laps to go. From the Red Bull camp it was said that otherwise you would have driven one second per lap faster.

I'm curious to see what will happen in the different track characteristics. If they can almost wrap up the championship before the summer break, the penalty will be less effective in theory

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Higher degradation certainly favours RB

[CHT]

RBR is likely to repeat their dominating display from 2010 to 2014. So the best chance for Ferrari or Merc will be 2025 season when RBR start shifting their focus to 2026 car.

[PlatinumZealot]

Congrats guys. You can take delivery of the championship early.

[Henk_v]

Did any news of upgrades leak out this weekend?

Why on earth would they have any rush to get upgrades? The reg schange of 22 must have been brutal for the team. Why keep pushing? They'll probably fit what's in the pipeline in due time, take the pressure off the team, take some time to breathe, make sure to capitalize on the success, see how the first part of the season pans out and if all is well focus on 24 re-energized.

[mendis]

Congrats guys. You can take delivery of the championship early.

Shame it was only 2021 that disrupted that trend.

[DDopey]

Domenicali will ask Horner to slow down a little to give at least the illusion of a championship.

[AR3-GP]

This year, Red Bull is racing with somewhat of a handicap. As a result of breaching the 2021 budget cap, the team had less testing time in the wind tunnel this year. If that has already hindered the development of the car, there was absolutely no sign of it in Bahrain.

"The penalty was announced relatively early on," Marko explained. "So we focused relatively early on making an evolution of the old car. We looked at how we could optimise what was maybe not working great on the old car. If we sent something to the wind tunnel, it had to work straight away, and it did. The core team has been together for 15 years now, they know what to do. They work together very well."

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/185898/m ... or-us.html

Marko says the windtunnel penalty forced them to commit to simply refining the RB18 rather than other ideas.

[ValeVida46]

This year, Red Bull is racing with somewhat of a handicap. As a result of breaching the 2021 budget cap, the team had less testing time in the wind tunnel this year. If that has already hindered the development of the car, there was absolutely no sign of it in Bahrain.

"The penalty was announced relatively early on," Marko explained. "So we focused relatively early on making an evolution of the old car. We looked at how we could optimise what was maybe not working great on the old car. If we sent something to the wind tunnel, it had to work straight away, and it did. The core team has been together for 15 years now, they know what to do. They work together very well."

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/185898/m ... or-us.html

Marko says the windtunnel penalty forced them to commit to simply refining the RB18 rather than other ideas.

The development cycle for the RB19 would've been well into final phase and mock up.
His statement doesn't make sense given that the penalty was given at the end of October 2022.
Unless they knew a penalty was coming, or the initial plan was always to refine the RB18.

[InsaneX_Badger]

This year, Red Bull is racing with somewhat of a handicap. As a result of breaching the 2021 budget cap, the team had less testing time in the wind tunnel this year. If that has already hindered the development of the car, there was absolutely no sign of it in Bahrain.

"The penalty was announced relatively early on," Marko explained. "So we focused relatively early on making an evolution of the old car. We looked at how we could optimise what was maybe not working great on the old car. If we sent something to the wind tunnel, it had to work straight away, and it did. The core team has been together for 15 years now, they know what to do. They work together very well."

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/185898/m ... or-us.html

Marko says the windtunnel penalty forced them to commit to simply refining the RB18 rather than other ideas.

Rest of the F1 grid: *scared noises*

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This year, Red Bull is racing with somewhat of a handicap. As a result of breaching the 2021 budget cap, the team had less testing time in the wind tunnel this year. If that has already hindered the development of the car, there was absolutely no sign of it in Bahrain.

"The penalty was announced relatively early on," Marko explained. "So we focused relatively early on making an evolution of the old car. We looked at how we could optimise what was maybe not working great on the old car. If we sent something to the wind tunnel, it had to work straight away, and it did. The core team has been together for 15 years now, they know what to do. They work together very well."

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/185898/m ... or-us.html

Marko says the windtunnel penalty forced them to commit to simply refining the RB18 rather than other ideas.

Rest of the F1 grid: *scared noises*

Implies that they are saving their more radical ideas for now and yet they've got this much faster. Impressive

[ME4ME]

While it was a comfortable weekend for Red Bull I don't yet buy that they'll be totally dominant this season. For one Leclerc could've matched them in qualifying or been pretty close. And secondly Perez was exactly flying past Leclerc early in the race.

Seems to me that RB isn't that far ahead in ultimate performance. However they're much more consistent and reliable over a stint and race then Ferrari. Aston Martin is consistent over a stint too but maybe lacks two tenths.

[Capharol]

lets see how it stands after the 4th race, if they are still dominating it will be a boring (for Merc and Ferrari fans) season.
But if Ferrari can be real close in the remaining 3 races then it will still be a a eexciting season.

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First big development due in Baku, like many expected already