In the round-up: Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey explains the concept behind the team’s latest class-leading Formula 1 car.
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In brief
Newey explains “more extreme” RB20
Although the RB20 is outwardly different to its predecessor in several key ways, Newey says the core idea behind it is the same, but taken to a more advanced level.
“Really the sort of architecture of the car, has stayed very similar,” he told Sky. “Third generation since ’22. The aero principles which you now see on this year’s car compared to last year, it’s a route that we were taking really since early ’22 and it’s just a more extreme version or route down the same path.”
Red Bull introduced its first significant upgrade for the car at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, adding new vents either side of the cockpit surrounds among other changes. “The whole principle including the top body is kind of extending a principle that we really started to push quite hard last year.” said Newey.
“It’s a credit to all the guys back at the factory, obviously,” he added. “We’ve got a tremendous team of engineers, and then that spreads through to the whole organisation and their enthusiasm and drive and creativity is what you see here before you.”
Stroll avoids pit penalty
Aston Martin was not penalised for releasing Lance Stroll’s car from its pit box alongside Kevin Magnussen’s car as the stewards deemed he wasn’t able to blend into the traffic in the pit lane. Magnussen had Valtteri Bottas close behind.
“Car 18 [Stroll] exited the pit stop in the working lane slightly behind car 20 [Magnussen] in the fast lane,” the stewards noted. “Appendix L Chapter IV Article 5 b) [of the International Sporting Code] states that car 18 should blend into the fast lane as soon as it is safe to do so and without impeding any car in the fast lane. Because car 20 was in the fast lane and was followed closely by car 77 [Bottas], it is not possible to determine that car 18 could have blended prior to the pit exit.”
Stroll overtook Magnussen as they left the pits, which the stewards ruled was legal. “At the pit exit line, car 18 was still behind car 20. Car 18 overtook car…
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