2026 Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team

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2026 Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team



Base: Faenza, Italy and Milton Keynes (R&D), UK.

Team Chief: Alan Permane
Technical Chief: Tim Goss

Chassis: RB??
Power Unit: Red Bull Ford

Drivers:
Liam Lawson 30.
Arvid Linblad 41.

Reserve Driver: Ayumu Iwasa

[Macklaren]

Interesting that they went with the full wheel covers when RBR did not. Car also seems quite different than the RB22 (though both are probably mockups at this point)

[vorticism]

The wheels look great. A bit of vintage F1 in them.



On the front wing they're showing 4 moving flaps and two actuators. So far we've only seen the single actuator, two moving flaps option.

Per issue 13:
-There are front wing and rear wing versions of the adjuster system (FWAS & RWAS).
-FW: up to 3 profiles, one or two of the rearmost of which can comprise the FWAS.
...
-If using 2 profiles in the FWAS they can rotate along their own axis, with a max deviation of 30 mm for the “Primary Flap” and 60mm for the “Secondary Flap.”
-FWAS flap pivot axis can be angled up to 30 deg from transverse, meaing (I take it) there can be one continuous flap with a 0* axis (like current RW DRS) or one flap per side with up to a 30* axis (like current FW flaps)
-FWAS can have one or two actuators, one centrally with a fairing, or one per side faired with the FW pylons, and be driven electrically (new) or hydraulically
...
All told I see one major potential differentiation available across teams: a FWAS that has either one, two, or four rotating flaps. Another less visible one will be the choice to use a hydraulic piston or an electromechanical actuator.

Interesting that they went with the full wheel covers when RBR did not. Car also seems quite different than the RB22 (though both are probably mockups at this point)

Those would be the actual wheels, believe it or not. Continuous material. There are no more covers, only the hoops shown. Hard to see, but the RBR's spokes are bridged by continuous material.

[vorticism]

The regs demand that the moveable flaps of the wings fail to Corner Mode (like DRS did). VCARB's renderings of the front wing seem to depict a front-hinged flap assembly, which would fail to Straight Mode. Unless that's a metallic stop, not a hinge at the front, and the hinge lies out of sight on the fishplates, in which case there's not much space at the front between the actuator fairing and the forward flap to allow upward movement. Maybe the entire fairing pivots upward when the Actuator System is active.

[AR3-GP]

The regs demand that the moveable flaps of the wings fail to Corner Mode (like DRS did). VCARB's renderings of the front wing seem to depict a front-hinged flap assembly, which would fail to Straight Mode. Unless that's a metallic stop, not a hinge at the front, and the hinge lies out of sight on the fishplates, in which case there's not much space at the front between the actuator fairing and the forward flap to allow upward movement. Maybe the entire fairing pivots upward when the Actuator System is active.

https://i.postimg.cc/vmGK0fxZ/vcarbflap.png

The render should be taken with a grain of salt. The connection to the wing is abstraction at best. There's no design there.

[Badger]

[Emag]

Why did they put the rookie in the car for the shakedown though. Makes no sense.

[Badger]

Why did they put the rookie in the car for the shakedown though. Makes no sense.

Doubt they missed much, today was a max of 3 laps. Tomorrow they will be doing the 200 km filming day.

[dren]

The regs demand that the moveable flaps of the wings fail to Corner Mode (like DRS did). VCARB's renderings of the front wing seem to depict a front-hinged flap assembly, which would fail to Straight Mode. Unless that's a metallic stop, not a hinge at the front, and the hinge lies out of sight on the fishplates, in which case there's not much space at the front between the actuator fairing and the forward flap to allow upward movement. Maybe the entire fairing pivots upward when the Actuator System is active.

https://i.postimg.cc/vmGK0fxZ/vcarbflap.png

The render should be taken with a grain of salt. The connection to the wing is abstraction at best. There's no design there.

Looks to be real sans the cable looking attachment to the wing. It's more of a metal bracket on the real thing.

[edu2703]

[lio007]

Looks like the car suffered no real damage from that low speed spin.

The audio of that clip is a bit strange and unnatural when the spin starts.

[johnnycesup]

If that's not some sort of AI, the spin is very unnatural, maybe some BBW problem?

[Badger]

Don't know if it's unnatural. These cars have a 350 kW rear hand brake now, he's in the wet on his first lap, he probably miscalculated the rear grip and locked up and when he tried to correct it snapped the other way. The engine was still on in the gravel so it didn't stall going in.

[BassVirolla]

Don't know if it's unnatural. These cars have a 350 kW rear hand brake now, he's in the wet on his first lap, he probably miscalculated the rear grip and locked up and when he tried to correct it snapped the other way. The engine was still on in the gravel so it didn't stall going in.

To me, sounds like the spin occurs exactly when the K applied a heavy recovery. The sound gets more profound, as if the engine is under load while loosing rpms.

[lio007]

Don't know if it's unnatural. These cars have a 350 kW rear hand brake now, he's in the wet on his first lap, he probably miscalculated the rear grip and locked up and when he tried to correct it snapped the other way. The engine was still on in the gravel so it didn't stall going in.

To me, sounds like the spin occurs exactly when the K applied a heavy recovery. The sound gets more profound, as if the engine is under load while loosing rpms.

So, hopefully just a software glitch.
I'm afraid the whole controls software is immature and affecting driveability heavily.