Red Bull Racing doubts its rivals will all make copies of the successful RB18 design for the 2023 F1 season, despite the constraints of current F1 regulations.
Red Bull Racing has produced a benchmark car for the 2022 F1 season. Max Verstappen scored a record-breaking 14 Grand Prix wins, while team-mate Sergio Perez won two more, giving him a commanding championship win.
But Red Bull Racing chief engineer Paul Monahan believes rival teams could pursue different design philosophies, as Mercedes and Ferrari did this year.
Paul Monhan said the design rules were “a bit more constraining in that the cars are very similar, and it’s more restrictive than it used to be,” he admits, but “simply put, cars I don’t think it will look the same,” he added.
“I don’t think we’ve reached that point yet. The regulations govern shapes more strictly than they used to. But there are some differences, especially when you look at Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull cars. There is an important difference between
Following major changes to the technical regulations this year, there will be minor adjustments to some areas of the car for 2023, such as floor dimensions.
“We have a regulation change for next year,” said Monaghan.
“Will everyone get the same solution in the first game? I don’t think that’s the way our sport works.”
“So I think there will be differences. They will be smaller in magnitude than what we saw in, say, 2010, 2011, 2012. It’s the evolution of the sport.”
But Williams technical director François-Xavier Demaison, who has already taken Red Bull’s design cues in 2022, has a different view.
“I’m sure the teams will converge when you see the speed of the blue cars,” said François-Xavier Doumaison.
“I think a lot of cars are already trying to go in that direction. So I would be surprised if there aren’t more cars going in that direction. You can’t avoid that. That’s motorsport, Always copy the fastest car, that’s F1.”
Aston Martin’s performance director Tom McCullough said the improved car was dubbed the ‘Green Red Bull’ when it appeared at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, and that current rules allow the team to have multiple cars during the season. He said it discouraged him from trying the development path. pre-season test.
“I think the cost gap means we’re working on ideas that people haven’t been able to bring to a track they’ve never seen,” said Tom McCullough.
“So we will probably see some differences at the beginning of next year.”
