Pink Bull has taken the covers off the RB21, the automobile with which Max Verstappen goals to beat his fifth straight Components 1 drivers’ title.
Forward of F1’s three-day winter check in Bahrain, which kicks off on Wednesday, Pink Bull was the final crew to unveil its up to date automobile design for the upcoming season, the ultimate one below the present ground-effect based mostly rules cycle that might be pushed by Verstappen and his new team-mate Liam Lawson.
Sporting a really related livery to final 12 months’s automobile, a color scheme that had already been revealed eventually week’s F1 75 launch in London, the RB21 is an evolution of the RB20.
Pink Bull Racing RB21
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It has undergone a wide range of modifications to handle the automobile steadiness points that plagued its predecessor, though the low-light studio pictures launched by the crew nonetheless rigorously saved most of its secrets and techniques hidden from view.
Verstappen and Pink Bull began the 2024 season in dominant type however, as McLaren caught up after which overtook the Milton Keynes-based crew, Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez began to battle rather more with steadiness issues on the RB20 that particularly affected Perez.
It took till September’s Italian Grand Prix for Pink Bull to achieve a deeper understanding of the place it had gone improper, however by that point it was too late to keep away from slipping to 3rd behind McLaren and Ferrari within the constructors’ desk.
Pink Bull Racing RB21
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Based on technical director Pierre Wache, Pink Bull has been onerous at work to make its new automobile simpler to steadiness and arrange, however with out compromising the automobile’s peak efficiency potential.
“The principle factor that you’re making an attempt to attain is a steadiness between making a automobile that’s faster than the others and making it good to drive in order that drivers can extract essentially the most from it,” Wache advised Autosport.
” that should you enhance the [operating] window you additionally cut back the general potential.
Pink Bull Racing RB21
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“In 2023 we had been proved that our route was appropriate as a result of we had been faster than the others. Final season we had been proved that we weren’t appropriate.
“Each time there’s a restrict when the steadiness takes the profit in comparison with the general potential of the automobile. We’ve got to repair it for this 12 months.”
Components 1’s pre-season formally will get below method on Wednesday at 7am GMT, when testing begins in Bahrain.
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