2025 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[ringo]

Extrapolation not correlation issues.
What Wache could be saying is that you cannot possibly test every scenario, nor equally simulate them. The engineers will have representative data from simulation of a certIn situation to predict how the car should respond in a different event. I think this is where the issue is, and with 3 days alone of testing it's not really a big problem.
In the same way a short stint can be run on a tyre and then that sample data can be use to model how a longer stint would look like, with different variables being changed etc.
Keeping in mind Redbull have an old wind tunnel, they may be forced to extrapolate information from limited primary data collected.
This RB21 leaves a lot of questions in terms of progress, but I wouldnt say it's 4th or 1rst. We really have no idea.
It may just turn on Saturday to be the fastest car after a little tweaking.

[lio007]

If only the new wind tunnel would be finished in the coming weeks.
We only know it's 3 months ahead of schedule, but if the completion is scheduled anytime in '26 then we have still a long way to go with the old one.
And as we can see with AM, delays can occur unexpectedly.

[Henk_v]

Well, Red Bull has a long history of (using team language) looking f&cked and then taking pole.

To me it seems like the car we saw in testing was a mule car, that will very rapidly change.
Max is just really opportunistic and hard to keep behind & pass. As cheesy as it sounds; he just needs a decent car. He will be WDC, I have absolutely no doubt. The top is closer than ever and he has proven to be the master in playing that game in 21 and 24. He can do 24 mexico's if needed.

[Sergej]

He can do 24 mexico's if needed.

Let's hope not honestly.