2026 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[Badger]

I thought we would have known about ADUO by now. Wasn’t the point that after the deadline race (Canada in this case) you would be able to bring an upgrade immediately if you qualified? Not that I expect people to have one ready yet, but at least the opportunity should be there.

[organic]

I thought we would have known about ADUO by now. Wasn’t the point that after the deadline race (Canada in this case) you would be able to bring an upgrade immediately if you qualified? Not that I expect people to have one ready yet, but at least the opportunity should be there.

Soontm

I haven't paid attention to how it works but I assume teams will have the engine ready to go in

Also red bull must be giving up some performance in the way they're running max's engine pool in this first portion of the season...

[Wouter]

Last night at the Musée Océanographique in Monaco. Princess Charlène looks great in that dress.

[Valeo]

There goes the devolpment budget
The rear is so stiff, the Ferrari looks like a Maybach in comparison

[venkyhere]

Now slowly the alarm bells will start ringing about the choice for the 2nd seat. Hadjar seems too desperate, hence the inputs that are snapping the car. Or is it a fundamental car problem ? Whether Perez/Tsunoda/Lawson/Hadjar they all seem to be crashing the car far far more than any of the top four teams. It doesn't matter which era car we talking about, has Redbull fallen into the 'design trap' of engineering their rear end (mech/aero) to be permanently loose, by default, just because the lead driver is capable of handling a loose rear ? The frequency of 'crash from unforced (non wheel to wheel situation) driver error' is far too high since 2024.

[Rikhart]

Now slowly the alarm bells will start ringing about the choice for the 2nd seat. Hadjar seems too desperate, hence the inputs that are snapping the car. Or is it a fundamental car problem ? Whether Perez/Tsunoda/Lawson/Hadjar they all seem to be crashing the car far far more than any of the top four teams. It doesn't matter which era car we talking about, has Redbull fallen into the 'design trap' of engineering their rear end (mech/aero) to be permanently loose, by default, just because the lead driver is capable of handling a loose rear ? The frequency of 'crash from unforced (non wheel to wheel situation) driver error' is far too high since 2024.

I interpret it more along the lines of F1 drivers being incredibly competitive, they arrive at this team, meet an alien talent, and start spiralling out of control. It must be hard on incredibly arrogant athletes to meet someone who is in another league altogether.

Hadjar probably the worst of them all, because he looks to be quite hot-headed and lacking in emotional control.

[Paa]

Now slowly the alarm bells will start ringing about the choice for the 2nd seat. Hadjar seems too desperate, hence the inputs that are snapping the car. Or is it a fundamental car problem ? Whether Perez/Tsunoda/Lawson/Hadjar they all seem to be crashing the car far far more than any of the top four teams. It doesn't matter which era car we talking about, has Redbull fallen into the 'design trap' of engineering their rear end (mech/aero) to be permanently loose, by default, just because the lead driver is capable of handling a loose rear ? The frequency of 'crash from unforced (non wheel to wheel situation) driver error' is far too high since 2024.

I also think it is mostly psychological. They are overdriving trying to keep up with Max.

[Valeo]

Seems better than anything we have seen in the GE era (except 2022 maybe) from Red Bull around Monaco.
Maybe a podium is within reach.

[AR3-GP]

I'm not buying this just yet.

[Valeo]

They are very strong in S3 to my surprise.
Need further improvements in S2 though.

[gearboxtrouble]

Max looks like the closest challenger to the Ferraris here. Much to my surprise Mclaren do not seem to be great around Monaco. Mercedes look a step behind.

[euv2]

The pace is real, GP told Max that he was 0.1s off Ferrari pace on mediums fuel corrected.

Won't be enough to beat Ferrari but beating the Mercedes and MCL would be huge.

[Valeo]

They extract everything from the grid‘s 5th best chassis
Joking aside, Mercedes and McLaren will be up there tomorrow.

[Paa]

I was optimistic for Monaco after Miami S2.
But surprised to see how relatively weak the Merc engined cars are.

[euv2]

They extract everything from the grid‘s 5th best chassis
Joking aside, Mercedes and McLaren will be up there tomorrow.

PU corrected chassis ranking is Ferrari, RBR, Merc, Audi, MCL.