2026 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[euv2]

Max on his crash: "I'm not sure what happened in that last lap. I had quite a bit of oversteer into T6, which was already weird, where I lost a little time.. I knew there was some margin in that last sector.. I steered in, and it was immediately completely gone, I couldn't even try and correct it. We have to look at the rear wing, that it closed on time, because this felt really weird."

Q: We thought maybe you had pushed the car too much?

Max: "No.. look, you can always have a moment, you can correct it, this was just.. completely gone."

Max suggesting DRS problem, something definitely seemed off with the crash. There was very little steering input for Max to warrant that kind of rear loss.

[Badger]

Max on his crash: "I'm not sure what happened in that last lap. I had quite a bit of oversteer into T6, which was already weird, where I lost a little time.. I knew there was some margin in that last sector.. I steered in, and it was immediately completely gone, I couldn't even try and correct it. We have to look at the rear wing, that it closed on time, because this felt really weird."

Q: We thought maybe you had pushed the car too much?

Max: "No.. look, you can always have a moment, you can correct it, this was just.. completely gone."

Max suggesting DRS problem, something definitely seemed off with the crash. There was very little steering input for Max to warrant that kind of rear loss.

I doubt DRS. We'd need to see how much speed he was carrying, but my guess is he just carried a little more speed and when the harvesting kicked in the tyres said enough. Australia was a similar crash where the rear just went instantly and that was a harvesting miscalibration.

[euv2]

Max on his crash: "I'm not sure what happened in that last lap. I had quite a bit of oversteer into T6, which was already weird, where I lost a little time.. I knew there was some margin in that last sector.. I steered in, and it was immediately completely gone, I couldn't even try and correct it. We have to look at the rear wing, that it closed on time, because this felt really weird."

Q: We thought maybe you had pushed the car too much?

Max: "No.. look, you can always have a moment, you can correct it, this was just.. completely gone."

Max suggesting DRS problem, something definitely seemed off with the crash. There was very little steering input for Max to warrant that kind of rear loss.

I doubt DRS. We'd need to see how much speed he was carrying, but my guess is he just carried a little more speed and when the harvesting kicked in the tyres said enough. Australia was a similar crash where the rear just went instantly and that was a harvesting miscalibration.

He did have a green minisector before the crash, so he was probably going a bit faster. Australia was a bit more obvious with the rear locking. But yeah, extra entry speed+too much harvesting probably caused the slide.

[Valeo]

I'm still surprised they seem to struggle to improve the fast corner performance which was always a strong point during the past?

[Emag]

Because upgrades are not an on/off switch and they don't always deliver a massive amount of performance. What McLaren did in 2023 and 2024 is not the norm at all, I don't know why people have this unreasonable expectation that anyone can just gain 1 second with just one upgrade package. Even McLaren themselves can't replicate that anymore.

This is just normal. RedBull has still been mighty impressive with their development from the start of the season.

[FW17]

I'm still surprised they seem to struggle to improve the fast corner performance which was always a strong point during the past?

Without the anti-dive front suspension geometry high speed platform control would be a challenge in comparison to most of the front running teams that have it.

[Juzh]

Merc lot more deployment in sector 3 i guess

They're also faster in all high speed corners, as well as final one. So it adds up.

[venkyhere]

I'm still surprised they seem to struggle to improve the fast corner performance which was always a strong point during the past?

Without the anti-dive front suspension geometry high speed platform control would be a challenge in comparison to most of the front running teams that have it.

I am unable to understand this correlation between anti-dive (which was a necessity in the tunnel era where the floor was sensitive even to tiny orientation changes) and high speed corners. In the pre-tunnel era, where chassis rules were similar to current era, I don't remember seeing much of anti-dive geometries and cars had no issues flying through high speed corners. So it would be helpful if you elaborate a bit what you are trying to convey.