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It's also the regulations. Red Bull are in debugging mode after they got some things wrong last year. That is why it's like this. The 2022 car was good as you rightly said, same with 2023 at least partly.Cs98 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 13:43It's an old narrative from the last regulations where the RB was very sharp on the front, largely due to its high rake philosophy. Since 2022 this hasn't been the case. Out of all the top teams you'd have to say the RB looks the least responsive on the front, especially in medium and low speed corners. Max still manages to rotate the car with some trickery, that is his secret relative to his teammates in this car. I suspect it's a combination of adding a lot of front wing (and tolerating it in high speed), braking early and prioritising the exit, knowing the limit of grip on the front precisely, and insane consistency.
The real issue here is not the second seat, it's the fact that RB can't produce a balanced car anymore, the second seat is a symptom. Max can drive around the issues better but they are losing competitiveness compared to the other teams. We saw what Max could do in a car that had a lot of downforce and good balance in 2022 and 2023, and Perez was winning races and being a decent driver then because the car had reasonable balance.
https://x.com/daz0790/status/1904869251053203793
.euv2 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:22.
https://x.com/daz0790/status/1904869251053203793
Maybe they have something in store, cheeky tweet from RB employee.
Daz is not a RB employee? He's recently posted pictures of the RB main building, WindTunnel building progress and I've also seen Dr.Obbs interact with the account regularly, so assumed he was working there.Wouter wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:30.euv2 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:22.
https://x.com/daz0790/status/1904869251053203793
Maybe they have something in store, cheeky tweet from RB employee.
This isn't from a RB employee. This is a RBR Fan Account.
.euv2 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:47.Wouter wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:30.euv2 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 15:22
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https://x.com/daz0790/status/1904869251053203793
Maybe they have something in store, cheeky tweet from RB employee.
This isn't from a RB employee. This is a RBR Fan Account.
Daz is not a RB employee? He's recently posted pictures of the RB main building, WindTunnel building progress and I've also seen Dr.Obbs interact with the account regularly, so assumed he was working there.
Reminds me of YukiHenk_v wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 09:58I like the decision.
If they'd put yuki in immediately, they would not have had a clear indicagion of the vcarb progress. The vcarb is an experimental platform to improve the rb21.
Now they know. Lawson did not pull a rabbit out of the hat, so swapping is a clear benefit.
Lawson did 50+ clean Laps in China with an experimental setup with no hope for points. That was his final audition. If you can not show your team you are able to master a corner and just complain, the conclusion is there I guess?
in quali yes, but in race conditions on high fuel the car just can't use the tyre grip like McLarenpantherxxx wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 17:24Red Bull is quick in fast corners. They're losing almost all their lap time to Mclaren in the slow corners, so Max will win in Suzuka, mark my words, and mark them well.
Marko once again publicly confirmed in Shanghai that the Dutchman's contract contains performance-related clauses. In other words, if Red Bull doesn't build a car capable of winning, the driver can leave.
The team has to try to keep the star driver happy. Hard-fought fourth places, as recently in China, are not enough for this.
. If the sporting situation doesn't improve quickly at Red Bull, the Austrian team is likely to see Max Verstappen leave, possibly for Mercedes according to AMuS.
After the first two GPs of the season, the pressure on Red Bull now increases with every free practice session, every qualifying session and every race.
The RB21 is not yet the winning single-seater promised to Max Verstappen. In fact, it suffers from the same fundamental problems as its predecessor. Admittedly, these flaws are perhaps a little less pronounced than in 2024, and the team is better able to compensate for them through tuning, but in the end, Red Bull has to admit: the new worries are broadly the same as the old ones.
And that's never a good sign. The engineers haven't found a solution to the problems that have been troubling them since Imola last year, even after the winter. This Red Bull can perform well at certain times or in certain conditions, but it can also be unpredictable, with erratic performance depending on the type of tires used in particular.
Lawson because he beat Tsunoda and Colipinto in the Toyota series and beat Alex Albon in DTM in his rookie year. And was in the running for the title in the last race
pantherxxx wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 17:24Red Bull is quick in fast corners. They're losing almost all their lap time to Mclaren in the slow corners, so Max will win in Suzuka, mark my words, and mark them well.
But how come they kept him on the sidelines for so long? To me that feels like they didn't see him as the next Verstappen.TeamKoolGreen wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025, 18:38Lawson because he beat Tsunoda and Colipinto in the Toyota series and beat Alex Albon in DTM in his rookie year. And was in the running for the title in the last race
Another interesting aspect to this. It's possible that those performance clauses relate to the WCC positioning, perhaps top 3? Another 3 weeks of that second car finishing outside the points could set them back severely in the WCC, and jeopardize their contract with Verstappen. Many considerations here.Marko once again publicly confirmed in Shanghai that the Dutchman's contract contains performance-related clauses. In other words, if Red Bull doesn't build a car capable of winning, the driver can leave.
