2026 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

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venkyhere
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from what I saw in FP3 :
- bad through 1-2-3
- terrible through 10-11-12
- lot of lift needed through 13 & 14.

It all means a mega lack of downforce on a 'fully-aero' track. To achieve balance, the front wing too has to be backed off , which in turn will produce mega understeer through 7 & 10. I think it's going to be worse than Suzuka, the laptime deficit to the leaders, Miami upgrade has been 'cancelled out' because everyone else ahead has made jumps too.

Hulkenberg's Audi has a good chance to be fighting with Verstappen for P7.

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Throttle trace tells the story. Just lacking load which leads to bigger lifts a lot of time lost.Image

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S3 still killing them but it seems to get better

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Valeo wrote:
13 Jun 2026, 16:33
S3 still killing them but it seems to get better
Probably weight and tyre temp related. Lawson just did a 22.9 in S3, Max did a 23.1 best of his weekend.

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If he could get out of T10 without a slide for once...
Still I don't expect more than P6 at best.

Banker lap while others haven't, good

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There's pace, Max's lap was very good but he had a snap in sector 2.

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The Q2 lap looked better.
Think there 3 tenth left with a great lap but that's it