Car launches: what's the use in hiding?

[timbo]

This also brings the question.... maybe the rumours about RB being on the fence in terms of preparations are true....
the car isnt ready to even be displayed. maybe they were originally planning to show their basic spec rb18 but its currently still
in pieces on the floor.

I believe this is the case as well as sponsor commitments.
RedBull has launched from the testing pit-lane before. If they really wanted to hide their development they could have easily waited till the first day of testing or the day before to launch their car. It appears that Oracle wanted to make this a grand announcement and wanted a studio launch, but RedBull of course doesn't even have a rolling chassis ready. That is not a bad thing for the engineers in a sense that they can get more preparation time, but not having a rolling chassis ready, nor even basic wings to attach to it could mean that other key parts such as the suspension is still being developed as we speak??

But again, they could have shown some renders of the true development project. If the final version is different, all the better.

Meanwhile, Youtube channel The Race covers the launches. After RB event they had a video which was called something like "What does RedBull hide", there they kinda admitted that this was a show car but kinda defended RBw while also calling it RB18 etc. And now the video was taken down.

[timbo]

Soooo...
AlphaTauri has hidden the rear pushrod in the presentation pictures. What was the point?

[RZS10]

They were hiding pretty much everything apart from the sidepod and engine cover shape - the RW, FW, nose, floor, mirrors, suspension front and rear etc are all different

[Scorpaguy]

In reality, no cars are truly launched/revealed prior to lights out in Bahrain (unless you are the 2021 Haas Team). After that race, there will be 22 more mini-launches.

[Rikhart]

I think this will answer you:

https://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari-a ... ail-f1-75/