At Red Bull they are not satisfied with having regained technical supremacy with the RB18 that literally outclassed all the competition at Spa-Francorchamps. The Milton Keynes team are very busy collecting data and information that will be useful for the next year.
Milton Keynes’s team made available to the International Federation to test larger rear-view mirrors, responding to a request from Nikolas Tombazis’ technical stewards for the 2023 season.
Red Bull repeats a test it had already carried out in Hungary: the peculiarity is that Sergio Perez mounted the larger rear-view mirror on the right side, while Max Verstappen made this choice on the opposite side on the left.
In Zandvoort there will be several teams that will join the tests desired by the FIA. There are those who hope that the mirrors will be replaced with micro cameras, even if the dimensions of the rear-view mirror are still reported by regulation.
Verstappen’s Red Bull RB18 is all instrumented with miniaturized solutions
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The world champion team also instrumented Verstappen’s RB18, but unlike other teams that will mount showy and heavy rakes, they decided to mount a series of sensors in some key points of the car.
There is an extension from the camera car to the sides of the engine hood with three small sensors, but there are also some at the edge of the airbox and above the chassis where the upper arm of the front suspension sneaks into the bodyshell. It is therefore striking the ability to miniaturize the data collection system with ever smaller instruments that cost less in terms of weight and aerodynamic drag.
Milton Keynes’ team showed up in Zandvoort with two different rear wing configurations that will be tested in the first free practice session: Max Verstappen will use a medium load version, while Sergio Perez will have a more pronounced high load main spoon profile. aerodynamic.
Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB18, detail of the high-load rear wing
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Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB18, detail of the medium load rear wing
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The aspect that characterizes both solutions is that the lateral support of the mobile flap no longer has the square shape as before, but has adopted the more rounded version that allows greater efficiency even when DRS is open: this is a choice dictated by the possibility to try the opening of the mobile wing already on the banking.
Red Bull RB18: the difference between Perez and Verstappen funds. The Mexican adopts the Ferrari-style one
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Red Bull also keeps the two different bottoms in front of the rear wheels: the Mexican continues to use the Ferrari-style one, not so much because Checo likes it more, but because the aerodynamicists want to understand why this solution gives less results than they see in wind tunnel.
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