The Milton Keynes team is officially world champion drivers and constructors, but remains in the eye of the storm due to the controversy over the 2021 cap budget. The arrival on the track of each new update on the RB18 often becomes a pretext for accusations and speculations among the public. , although in some cases the changes are minimal. This is the case of the latest news from Red Bull at the Singapore Grand Prixwhich involved the vertical strips of the Venturi channel grille, the central area in the load generation on current single-seaters.
The Chief Engineer spoke to the microphones of Tech Talk, the technical in-depth program produced by Formula 1 Paul Monaghanwho explained how the absence of damage to the funds in the months of August and September made it possible to invest resources to carry out the latest updates: “There has been a geometric change, but it’s very slight. It was not a colossal step forward. Thanks to the fact that the flaps are modular, we had the opportunity to do a small development in an attempt to gain stabilitytrying to extract a little more load in all conditions. It’s something we were able to introduce before the Asian trips. It is quite difficult to spot. I wish I could say it was worth five seconds per lap, but it isn’t. It is part of the ongoing development path, something we have managed to introduce as luckily we have not lost any funds in the sequence of Belgium, Holland and Monza. Not having to repair or rebuild funds gave us the opportunity to redo the flaps“.
The Venturi channel grille has been the subject of repeated updates throughout the Red Bull season. The latest Singapore modifications have marginally improved the stability of the RB18’s aerodynamic map, trying to contain the load and balance losses as the ground clearance changes. Overall, the 2022 season was not characterized by extensive update packages, but by small innovations that followed one another from race to race. “There were bigger packages towards the start of the season, when the changes in the car were more noticeable than the refinements we are making now. The spending cap also implied that we make smaller portions“Monaghan concluded.
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