Adrian Newey spoke of how Red Bull stuck with 'gut feeling' that their concept was the right path versus Mercedes, and how right they were.
Red Bull's Sergio Perez battles with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix. Spielberg, July 2023.
As it turned out though, Red Bull are the team that got it right, refining their approach through 2022 and into F1 2023 to become the dominant force of the Formula 1 grid.podcast what Red Bull got so right about these regulations to create such an advantage, Newey joked: “I can’t tell you that, Can I?”
“Whereas Ferrari, for instance, took the opposite approach. They weren’t in the championship battle in ’21, so they stopped developing their ’21 car very early on and just concentrated on the design of the ’22 car. Mercedes were somewhere in between that. We kept developing far longer than either of those teams. And so theoretically, that puts us into a disadvantage.
“We had an amount of bouncing, not as bad as the other teams, but we still had some bouncing which we needed to get on top of, and I think had a reasonable understanding of what we needed to do to do that. Newey admits that “gut feeling” always plays a part for a team like Red Bull, claiming they are under-staffed and under-resourced compared to a team like Mercedes, but sticking to their guns on a “polar opposite” approach to the Silver Arrows certainly has paid off.
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