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Rival teams have begun trying to develop their single-seaters in the direction taken by Red Bull, but they accept that reducing beam wings is complicated because of the amount of downforce they provide to help stabilize the rear end.

Red Bull's technical director, Pierre Wache, says there is no deep secret in what his team has done, and that it is surprising that rivals have taken so long to figure out something that, instead, his team has been doing since the start of the current ground-effect era.

"The crazy thing is that people are talking about it two years after we introduced it," Wache told Motorsport.com. "We had hundreds of tests by the FIA to see if we had used a trick or whatever, and people [even recently] don't understand why on high downforce tracks the advantage disappears. Okay, that means they haven't been able to figure it out yet. And that surprises us a lot."

Speaking about this advantage realized and maintained by Red Bull was, in an accomplished manner, Andrea Stella. The McLaren team principal pointed out that, in high probability, this advantage of the Milton Keynes team will remain for some time to come.

"They seem to have been pursuing their concept for quite some time. I think they are taking advantage of the experience they have gained in developing this configuration, and I think that has become evident as time has gone on."

"I think all the teams are now trying to understand what can be exploited by developing the same style, the same kind of direction introduced [by Red Bull]."

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[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

So what is Red Bull doing exactly that makes them so much faster than the rest?

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I think they generate a lot of downforce with the floor of the car / ground effects, allowing them to run less rear wing which increases their top speed

[-] riotrick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They say the advantage disappears on high downforce tracks. That seems to contradict this line of thought.

If you run with less rear wing the drs effect should be smaller, not larger. They are doing something different.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's because on high downforce tracks everybody has the same effect as them

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Hmm yeah true, I guess no one else really knows exactly how they are doing it. Maybe Mclaren knows since they increased their performance

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