The trend is now to play with words, changing their meaning with the aim of proposing a reality different from the one we have before our eyes. After the race not to be called a race, that is the Sprint Qualifying, and the test that is not a test, that is the shakedown in Barcelona, here is the presentation of a new car where what is missing is … the new car.
Each team is obviously jealous of their technical secrets, and it is understandable that there is a tendency to postpone the public exposure of what are the results of long months of work until the last moment.
Red Bull Racing
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What is less understandable is to sell like the presentation of a new single-seater an appointment where the new single-seater does not exist. It would have been enough to say it, and no one would have been disappointed.
The event proposed today by Red Bull is the presentation of a new livery, new sponsors (and the disappearance of the Honda logos), and an opportunity to return to hear the world champion Max Verstappen together with Sergio Perez and Christian Horner.
It is quite another thing to announce the new RB18, because if what we have seen is the new single-seater designed by Adrian Newey, it could be assumed that the extraordinary creative vein of the ‘genius’ has granted itself a sabbatical break, given that the car shown today also resembles too much to the show car shown by Formula 1 at Silverstone last July.
Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing Team Principal
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The most concrete thing of the event were the words of Christian Horner, who brought everything back to the real world with concepts valid even in the absence of the new car.
“For years the birth of a car was determined by the study of the technical and sporting regulations – he explained – while for the 2022 car for the first time we had to take into account the financial regulation”.
“With the new regulation changes this year the whole philosophy has changed, which means that every single component is different from last year’s car, and everything has been designed and built with the impact of the budget in mind. Postal Code”.
Then Horner admitted that what we saw today will not be what we will see on the track in the Bahrain Grand Prix:
“When we get to the first race, the RB18 will be different from what it looks like today, and the evolution will be very rapid as we progress through the season. It is a learning curve that will go up for everyone, it will be a race on the development front that will take place from the first to the last race on the calendar “.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing
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“We believe we have a good car for 2022, the RB18 is coming to life and seeing it today is fantastic. It has been a great effort from the team and I can’t wait to see the results on the track. We have number one on the car. , now the challenge is to keep him and defend the title won by Max, the work done in 2021 galvanized us and I think it will be the right push to dive into the season that awaits us in the best way “.
There are not many doubts about the goodness of the work that Red Bull has done, and we can bet on Horner’s words regarding the potential of the new project.
The curiosity of the thousands of enthusiasts who connected today for the presentation of the RB18 will be satisfied in the Barcelona tests scheduled in two weeks, where for the first time we will see the real car on the track, probably not yet in its final form but undoubtedly more closer to the final version than the one presented today.
Red Bull Racing RB18: here is the show car that does not represent the F1 that Milton Keynes will run
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