Oracle Red Bull Racing RB19 Speculation Thread

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Pretty sure Red Bull did indeed call it the RB19 and we did get that short review from Verstappen having just driven the new car. Also time-wise it makes sense.

By now its almost too late to do a shakedown of a new car since testing starts in Bahrain in a few days time. Apart from logistics it would also make sense that they want plenty of time to analyse data and respond to any issues in between the shakedown and the official Bahrain test.

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That is unless they would do the shakedown in Bahrain like Mclaren is planning, or like Haas did last season.

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@ME4ME says it all right.

https://news.verstappen.com/en/article/5009/
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Max after first miles in the RB19: 'Exactly what you hope for'

Published on 10 February 2023

Two-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen and his teammate Sergio Perez were in Silverstone on Friday,
where Oracle Red Bull Racing had a filming day with their 2023 car, the RB19.
During such a film day, a maximum of one hundred kilometers is allowed to be covered and driving is done on demo tires.
Hence a shakedown is all about checking the systems.

“Today I drove the RB19 for the first time,” says Max. “Of course it was a filming day here at Silverstone, but I got a good
first impression. Everything worked as it should and everything went very smoothly and that is exactly what you hope for
during such a day. Now I am really excited to go to Bahrain.”

Thank you for the proper info

Didn't realize it was available

[AR3-GP]

What is it that RB don't want anyone to see....

[PlatinumZealot]

Woah!!!



How is it that the RB19 side pods could be so different to the RB18 ones, and yet still the rest of the car looks the same?

What am I missing here? Just some old wings for testing purposes?

[AR3-GP]

Woah!!!



How is it that the RB19 side pods could be so different to the RB18 ones, and yet still the rest of the car looks the same?

What am I missing here? Just some old wings for testing purposes?

Is there a picture you can share?

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Yes what are you seeing that makes the sidepods look so different and the wings the same to last year?

Consensus here seems to be that the sidepods look like one of the only things they didn't change yet for the shakedown

[dren]

As good as the car was last year, I'm not expecting many drastic changes. I figure they'll go the Ferrari route and build on what they had.

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Ted Kravitz says RB will have some ballast this year in his rundown



Not a great source, but these journalists do have a high level of access

[kediown]

Apparently the McLaren also have mirror winglets. I think we can expect the same for RB19 since this seems to be the trend

[etusch]

looks like still there is not pictures from Redbull

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looks like still there is not pictures from Redbull

They seem to be keen to keep things under wraps as long as possible. Last year we got filming day content before the Barcelona test iirc. Why so secretive!

[Cs98]

looks like still there is not pictures from Redbull

They seem to be keen to keep things under wraps as long as possible. Last year we got filming day content before the Barcelona test iirc. Why so secretive!

We didn't. First pics were from the test.

[AR3-GP]

The must have a loophole part on their floor.

[Venturiation]

if they trust their correlation they can bring the upgrades last day of testing or even at race 1
and teams won't have time to copy since the first race is just 1 week later

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horn ... /10427871/

[AR3-GP]

RB might have an S-duct, among other things that they didn't want anyone to see:

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RB might have an S-duct, among other things that they didn't want anyone to see:

https://i.postimg.cc/15h2jXDf/image.png

At least 2 other teams lol. Is he not going to say who