Watto wrote: ↑27 Feb 2024, 02:35
I will be interested to see how RB evolve more than any other team since they decided to make some big changed to their designs (while keeping some of the fundamentals very much the same.what do they have planned.
None of this is surprising. Red Bull's concept became the only right one with the TD039 as it was far less dependent on low ride heights. While everyone else was thrown back and had to waste development capacity on correcting or adapting their concepts, Red Bull could simply develop further. Of course, this means you have developments in the drawer that you can simply "pull out" and in F1 you only do this when it is necessary. If you have a one-second lead, you don't need to make any major improvements. In the same way, if an opponent has something illegal on the car and you are 1 second faster anyway, you don't do anything about it. The best example of this is Michelin's tires from 2002/2003, which were built in such a way that their contact patch increased beyond the maximum size specified in the rules. Bridgestone and Ferrari already knew about this in 2002, but why say anything when you are much faster anyway? You'd rather save it until you need it, which wasn't until 2003. It's similar now with Red Bull. While others were busy adapting and correcting their concepts in 2022, they were able to continue developing undisturbed. Therefore, now that the opponents have come closer, they will bring some of the developments that they would normally have been ready for much earlier, but have developed "in reserve" due to the big lead. The only danger here is that these developments will not be as good as planed in reality. Or not work as you thought or that an opponent suddenly takes two steps at once. But Red Bull certainly still has one or two developments up its sleeve. Anything else would surprise me and would be grossly negligent.