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Post by wilmywood8455 on Dec 6, 2023 6:48:42 GMT -8
TECH TUESDAY: The design features that made the Red Bull RB19 so special
The Red Bull RB19 goes down as a contender for the most dominant car in F1 history, having won all but one of the 2023 season’s 22 races, setting new records for consecutive victories along the way.
Before the season got under way, it was widely expected that Red Bull’s big advantage of last year would be reduced into the second year of the new ground effect regulations as other teams got a fuller understanding. But in fact, Red Bull’s advantage increased significantly. How did they do that with a car which looked, at first glance, very similar to that of ‘22?
There is great significance to that similarity. Part of the RB19’s aerodynamic potential was baked into it by its predecessor, the RB18.
Adrian Newey, the team’s Chief Technical Officer, has a great history of coming up with great conceptual solutions to new regulation sets – the ’98 McLaren and 2009 Red Bull being just two examples – and while Newey is only part of a very talented team of aerodynamicists and engineers which form Red Bull’s technical group, he did have some valuable first principle inputs into last year’s RB18.
The combination of the aerodynamic platform of the car with the suspension platform and getting the two to work in harmony turned out to be absolutely the key to a quick car under these regulations – and it was Red Bull which understood this far better than any other team.
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