Rather than it being the machine that Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez will take into battle this season, it was simply a modified version of an F1 show car concept that has been shown off for months.
Team boss Christian Horner all but admitted that the ‘RB18’ on display at the launch was not going to be the same when it gets seen at the grands prix.
“By the time we get to the first race, the RB18 won’t look much like it looks today,” he said. “The evolution will be very quick as we progress through the season.”
But there was no need for much subterfuge about what was on show, because it was fairly obvious from looking at the ‘RB18’ design that it was based on the show car geometry that FOM had made available to teams for use in promotional and marketing work.
There have been numerous versions of the show car and renders produced by F1 in order to tease this new generation of machinery. They are not all identical, with the likes of the front wing, nose and…
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