“I expect a big Red Bull update at Silverstone”. Like this Mattia Binotto at the end of the Canadian Grand Prix he played the pretactic card in view of the British Grand Prix, where Ferrari dreams of ‘avenging’ the technical defeat of Barcelona where he was dominating. A win in the home garden of Red Bull and Mercedes would be as tasty for Ferrari as it did in 2018 when Sebastian Vettel won by celebrating the success with the now famous radio team “at home”.
The F1-75 has not been imposed since 10 April when Charles Leclerc clearly won the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and in Northampton the Monegasque will be able to count on a engine park completely renewed in terms of components of the power unit after the penalties spent in Canada and on a new rear wing mounted in the Montreal weekend with which Ferrari was also equipped in the Pirelli 2023 tests sustained last week at Mugello.
Christian Horner said Red Bull won’t bring big updates to their home grand prix (at least at the ‘domicile’ level as Red Bull’s ‘residence’ remains Austria), but that doesn’t mean the RB18 can dream of remove three tenths of his time in qualifying and in the race pace. According to what is reported by today’s edition of The Corriere dello Sportin fact, in Milton Keynes the men led by Horner and Marko on the track have worked to remove the last 5 extra pounds that take the RB18 away from its minimum weight.
In Spain, Verstappen’s car had also lost a few pounds, but the trial had highlighted an unexpected side effect such as the malfunction of the DRS. “A lesson we took on the chin”, admitted the head of Red Bull engineers Paul Monaghan. Red Bull’s intervention on the weight would turn both Binotto’s and Horner’s words into true. A potential improvement of three tenths is the fruit of a “Great development” as claimed by the number one of the Ferrari wall, but at the same time there will be no visual novelties on the RB18 as stated by Horner.
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