Red Bull needs solutions

With Verstappen as World Cup leader, only eight points ahead of the second and everything to be decided with two appointments from the end, trouble comes to Red Bull’s garage. At the most decisive point of the season, the tendency is confirmed that difficulties appear at the least opportune moments and in this case, perhaps, a message is also transmitted: luck continues to smile on the champions. According to Wolff, the appointment of Interlagos “woke up the lion” of Hamilton and it is true, that from that moment those of Mercedes have not stopped growing despite all the controversy and multiple battles in the offices, while the Milton Keynes factory now needs solutions to remedy a defective rear wing To which, especially, too much attention was paid during the weekend in Qatar.

The deficiency in the upper part of the rear wing of the RB16B acquired importance within the team’s work plan energetic before the appointment in Losail, but it was that scenario that brought out the most signs of weakness on the part of the team, after several races suffering from problems in the medium downforce configuration. The upper element that gives fault in the rear part of the car, performs a kind of flutter when Verstappen or Pérez open the DRS and this means that, from the outset, there is a meshing problem between the DRS actuator and the coupling, derived from the loads that both parts receive when they come into operation. And it does not exist no performance advantage, especially when they go to two tracks where they will not require a high downforce.

The World Cup moves to Saudi Arabia, where Verstappen could already certify his title if he came across a carom in Jeddah, and Abu Dhabi to certify the champion. Although the characteristics of both paths ask for other qualities, from Red Bull they cannot modify the element of discord as the DRS links became part of the list of homologated parts for 2021 and they spent their two development tokens at the beginning of the year on a new support for the gearbox, so those of Milton Keynes will look for the luck and they will try to be competitive during the weekend start with downforce high, which would make them not think too much about the problems of the rear wing along with another set-up.

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Recognizes it Horner, head of the energy team: “That was our favorite spoiler (the one with high downforce) and it was part of the setup we wanted to follow. It is clear that if we need the others in Jeddah or Abu Dhabi, obviously we will need to be able to straighten them, as well as the DRS mechanism. “A practice that, despite the limitations of the regulation, “From a reliability point of view, it should be relatively straightforward.” They do not expect to invest more hours of work than the estimated in the rear element, because “it is not a new technology”. “We have been using them for many years,” acknowledges the British leader, wanting to overlook a setback that despite the experience that they drag along with this element, it continues to take away hours of sleep at a decisive moment where his team, can be proclaimed champion again eight years later.

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