A core trait of Red Bull’s 2022 F1 dominance was its clear top speed advantage. SomersF1 explains its rivals have attempted to counter it this season by improving efficiency and reducing drag 📝
Having seen that Max Verstappen could not be challenged for overtakes on the straights, and found it fairly easy to breeze past other drivers if he needed to, Red Bull's opposition set about improving the efficiency of their cars and wings to reduce drag.
While the design language of the wing might be familiar, especially if compared with others, you’d have to go back a number of years to find the last time that Mercedes used a spoon-shaped rear wing design. Inevitably it comes down to what is quicker over the course of a lap, while also considering how much of an impact that choice has over the course of a race stint, with tyre degradation a crucial factor in those decisions.
The single pillar version was mounted on the car briefly in the early stages of free practice, as the team looked to gather more data ahead of its more likely introduction in Saudi Arabia. And while it seemed to flex a lot at the pillar, the team is committed to trialling it again.
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