Red Bull explain RB20 F1 car upgrades that were fast-tracked to Hungary

Red Bull conf꧟irmed their biggest upgrade of the 2024 𝓡F1 season was fast-tracked to Hungary.

Max Verstappen driving Red Bull's upgraded RB20 in Hungary
Max Verstappen driving Red Bull's upgraded RB20 in Hungary

Red Bull have fast-tracked their upgrade package for this weekend’s F1 Hungarian Grand Prix, reports Lewis 🍃Larkam in Budapest.

The reigning world champions have intro༺duced their biggest upgrade of the season on their RB20 car at the Hungaroring, feat🅺uring a revised engine cover, front wing and aerodynamic elements to both the front and rear.

Red Bull have faced intense pressure from their rivals in recent rac🐭es, with Mercedes claiming back-to-back victories in Austria and Britain, and McLaren also emerging as close challengers.

“It’s linked to temperature and the track nature,” Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan explained. “So we’ll see how it pans out here, won’tღ we? If the lap times are poor in relative terms, we’ll have to consider.

"But our belief is we’re going forward with this. Everyone at the factory has done a stunning job because we got it here earlier than expected. We’ll hopefully make goo🅷d use of it.”

M🔯onaghan added: “We’d looked to see how quickly we could🐻 bring this, and this is the earliest opportunity.

“Everybody’s close to us, aren’t they? So we need to be at the top of our game, and this is another small step. The upgrades 🥃bar one part of it are on both cars, so it’s a huge statement of thank you to everyone that’s got to this point♋.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen appeared to ramp up the pressure on Red Bull when he told media 💧on Thursday that he views this weekend’s race as being “important” for the team, adding he hopes the upgrade will pro🌠vide “quite a bit of lap time”.

“Based upon the data we’ve got coming into this race, it should be valuable to us,” Mona🎶ghan 🍰said.

"I think really w🧜e rate it in terms of what everyone else has done, don’t we? We’ve made the biggest step we can make. Is it enough? We’ll find out on Sunday afternoon. That’s really the rating of it.”

Both cars will be running the same update package bar the revised engine cover, which is only on Verstappen’s car, with teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez sticking to the old-spec design.

Asked if running two different c𒆙ooling specs will give Red Bull more workload, Monaghan replied: “More work? No, not 🌜really, because you do the two cars anyway.

“So the fact it’s a subtly differe꧅nt shape, not really, it’s not going to change our world. It doesn🍎’t change how we try to optimise it.

"It’s someth🌠ing we hopefully will dispose of by I guess Zandvoort.” 

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