2026 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[AR3-GP]

[euv2]

The stint was pretty good, no deg which was to be expected with even more of track being resurfaced. Still someway off Merc, difficult to say if the car has improved. S2 gap is massive at the moment, looking at Racing bulls there's probably some improvements to be made, unless RBR are deploying differently.

[euv2]

If the gap prior to this upgrade was 1s, it could possibly be down to 0.8s now, just a guess though looking at fastest laps and long run.

[AR3-GP]

[Valeo]

Interesting to see bigger sidepod changes already by the third race?

[euv2]

Car is undrivable, sorry - Max.

[Sergej]

ahead of McLaren my ass

[Valeo]

The Mercedes looks so much more nimbly it's almost like a different series...

[euv2]

https://x.com/F1GuyDan/status/2037426703450984678?s=20

[Valeo]

Not even that bad considering how the car behaved from the outside

[venkyhere]

I wouldn't be surprised if RBR finishes the season behind Audi. Looking at how they are doing so many basic changes to the aero, it's clear that they are struggling to establish even 'basic balance' in the car, despite so many changes to packaging/aero between Bahrain & Japan. I originally thought 'it can't be that bad', but it does look like it - nothing they do is providing any sort of result on the track, so much so that I am inclined to think that the mechanics/kinematics (suspension design) is flawed. The car has entry understeer and exit oversteer, no matter what corner type, what track, what packaging/aero mods. It has to be something utterly basic that's wrong with chassis.

Edit : even Mekies concurs. His take is even more pessimistic than mine https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/laur ... /10808483/

[Farnborough]

I wouldn't be surprised if RBR finishes the season behind Audi. Looking at how they are doing so many basic changes to the aero, it's clear that they are struggling to establish even 'basic balance' in the car, despite so many changes to packaging/aero between Bahrain & Japan. I originally thought 'it can't be that bad', but it does look like it - nothing they do is providing any sort of result on the track, so much so that I am inclined to think that the mechanics/kinematics (suspension design) is flawed. The car has entry understeer and exit oversteer, no matter what corner type, what track, what packaging/aero mods. It has to be something utterly basic that's wrong with chassis.

They've moved notably away from (the design direction AN started with them in 2022) of more extensive and adventurous front suspension layout.
That's certainly more in evidence on most other chassis this year, but not here.
I don't immediately see the logic in the move back toward a more conventional layout ( in anti dive type facility) on this car.
We've yet to see much that indicates leading edge pace from this, so far, limited number of races.

[Badger]

The car is oversteering on the entry in low speed and understeering in high speed. No graining at least.

[Vettel165]

Of course it is, its a heavy chonk. Until we drop some weight we will have major problem with the balance, they have 5 weeks time nearly to fix that, until then we will finish from p7 to p10 every race… but one day we will be back, its the reality for now.

[Juzh]

Solid 1.5s off in race pace. Excellent work.