My opinion:swifteddie1 wrote: ↑18 Feb 2024, 01:18Why is this extremely unbelievable? It was on Motorsport.com and they don't typically report things unless there is some truth to it. What is your proof that its 'extremely unbelievable'?chrstphrln wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 22:47The RB Zeropod story is extremely unbelievable for many reasons. Better forget this fairy tale quickly.swifteddie1 wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 21:15With reports that RB is moving to the zero pod philosophy it'll be interesting to see if the team remains bullish after the first few days of testing. Stella has always been honest so we should know soon.
Anyways this is the McLaren team thread so not going to debate this further here.
We will see.chrstphrln wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 23:39I can't believe that Zeropod-article.
No team has had as much time to develop the car as Red Bull. They stopped further development of the RB19 early on and concentrated on the new season. It is not credible that you plan in such a way that you still have to start with an interim car, which requires additional resources. And no one believes that Newey accidentally didn't finish. Then Red Bull would have simply used a slightly updated RB19 for the first races. It is also not plausible that the presentation RB20 is so secretive about the air inlets and that the other innovations are also successfully hidden, although these can be photographed in detail in a few days anyway, but much more sensitive, detailed information about a B-Spec in a few months will be released to the public. That just doesn't make any sense.
At the moment, even reputable media like Auto Motor und Sport are not entirely credible. Because even there you could read that the RB20 has cooling air openings on the side in the form of vertical slots, instead of in the side box.