How Red Bull took design inspiration from F1’s slowest team

Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan has revealed they took design inspiration from Williams.
Alexander Albon (THA) Williams Racing FW45 and Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd
Alexander Albon (THA) Williams Racing FW45 and Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. …

Red Bull have been F1’s dominant force in rec𒐪ent seasons, winning 17 of the last 18 races.

It’s co💞ntrasting fortunes for Williams, who haven’t won an𓂃 F1 race in over a decade.

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Red Bull won las♑t year’s constructors’ championshi𝓡p, while Williams finished last with just eight points.

Despite the significant gap between the two team🃏s, Red Bull have openly ad💟mitted about taking a design idea from Williams and using it on their own race-winning car.

"You can't assume that you have the best solution in all areas of the car when you🦂 first put the car on the ground," Monaghan said in Spain.

"Our c📖urrency is lap time and that piece of floor design, that was out early-2022. I recall the Williams had it quite early on, some other people had it.

"It didn't necessarily work for us, we've looked at it a couple of times a🌌nd it's a small benefit - it l🧜ooks like a slightly larger change than is actually realised.

"It's coming towards the back of the floor so it is not going to be the most in👍fluential thing. It helps a little bit. You are quite constrained, if you look height-wise, where we can do it. 

"So it's been there for a wܫhile in our work so we were in a position where we could include that in that bit of the floor, and we've done it."

Coincidentally, Williams have received a lot of criticism for the simplicity of their floor after it was exposed when 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant's car wa⛎s being recovered in final practice at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB19 makes a pit stop. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 8, Spanish Grand Prix,
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB19 makes a pit stop. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 8…

Team boss James Vowles defended tꦉhe design, although acknowl꧂edged a lack of “detail” relative to their competitors.

“There were photos taken of our floor this weekend after Logan went off in FP3 and obviously those have been compared to photography taken of our competito🎀rs just a few weeks ago,” Vowles explained.

“I think oওne thing to point out is that it is a little bit deceptive. What happened here is it’s very focused on that rear diffuser ramp unlike the other photos that perhaps focus more on to 💃the floor and the mid floor where you can actually, within the regulations, add more detail.

“All that said and done though, we are clearly lacking detail꧙ relative to our competitors but you wouldn’t have needed the underside of the floor to know that, you can see that ꦚfrom lap times.

“That’s fundamentally a feature of balanced characteristics and how the cars performance and downforce as well at theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ same time and a lot of that is being generated by the floor.”

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