2023 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[ME4ME]

My guess would be it stands for Displacement. Gear displacement in itself or maybe the hydraulic displacement (cc/rev) of the variable axial piston pump.

[Wouter]

Max Verstappen Full Race Team Radio (with Positions and Live Timing) | 2023 Bahrain GP



Sergio Pérez Full Race Team Radio (with Positions and Live Timing) | 2023 Bahrain GP

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According to AMuS (around 1min50 into the video linked below) RB will bring a small upgrade at Australia followed by a significant upgrade at Baku - the latter of which we already knew. No upgrades mentioned for Saudi so probably just low df rear wing and maybe fw flaps. Not surprising

They have said on the most recent Formula Schmidt episode that the Baku upgrade is expected to bring a "significant step" so presumably the team are confident about it if they have talked to the journalists about it in no uncertain terms

I would guess the Baku upgrade will be a new floor... But I am frequently very wrong (mirrors )

[Marble]

Some telemetry data from the race : Max straight into management from lap 1 at GP's request.
Loads of lift & coast, lap time gained on corner exit.

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Red Bull is good everywhere. In all curves, on the straights, on a lap, over the distance. The efficiency masters go full throttle. It is said that Red Bull wants to add new parts for the first time in the third race of the season (Australia). For the GP Azerbaijan at the end of April there will be the first major upgrade. It affects the sub-floor. As you can hear, Red Bull is hoping for a significant step.

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... on-martin/

So the Baku upgrade is likely to be a new floor

Last year they also brought a new floor at Baku, so it follows

[kediown]

[AR3-GP]

Some telemetry data from the race : Max straight into management from lap 1 at GP's request.
Loads of lift & coast, lap time gained on corner exit.

This paints a pretty grim picture for the others. Verstappen managing a lot more than anyone else in the first stint, and pulls away at a canter.

Also, a very high quality analysis here.

[Wouter]

Red Bull: F1 advantage will "melt away" as wind tunnel penalty bites

Red Bull thinks the edge it has in Formula 1 will "melt away" over the season as the impact of its 2023 wind tunnel penalty bites.
In an interview on the YouTube channel of Autosport’s sister publication Formel1.de, Marko said Red Bull was far from relaxed despite looking comfortable in front right now.

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says that as the season rolls on, the advantage its rivals have in being able to develop more will help them close the gap.
Marko: “At the moment, we've managed to do all that. But, of course, as the season progresses and we run out of wind tunnel time, the others will still have that available and our lead will then melt away.
“That's why it's extremely important that we take the points with us now.”

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/red-b ... /10443018/

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Another long article in Dutch about the windtunnel time:

https://nl.motorsport.com/f1/news/effec ... /10442873/

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Another nice long article about the importance of simwork at RBR. (In Dutch)

The F1 simulator: Red Bull's invisible but indispensable weapon

The simulator has been instrumental to the success of Formula One teams for many years. In the absence of test days or longer training sessions, the simulator is the way to test changes to the car and make preliminary development decisions.
Rudy van Buren has been with Red Bull Racing for several years as a simulator driver. He gives Motorsport.com an inside look at this invisible but hugely important weapon.

https://nl.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-si ... /10441572/

[johnny vee]

So as we all know Redbull only has 60% of allowed wind tunnel time right but I was told by a friend that wind tunnel times work from june or july to following year june/ july. Is this true?
Thanks for all the great insight here by the way!

[AR3-GP]

So as we all know Redbull only has 60% 63% of allowed wind tunnel time right but I was told by a friend that wind tunnel times work from june or july to following year june/ july. Is this true?
Thanks for all the great insight here by the way!

Two different things.

The first regulation is that in every 6 month block, your WT hours are determined by your current WCC position at the end of the preceeding block. RB were ranked 1st in WCC end of 2022, so have 70% allocation of hours from Jan-June 2023. This nominal value would increase IF RB are 2nd or worse in the WCC come June.

The second (RB only) is that they have a 10% reduction in tunnel hours they are allocated from the first regulation. This penalty lasting from October 2022 to October 2023, on top of whatever hours they receive from the first regulation.

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Max reckons the car will be strong here

[Wouter]

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[AR3-GP]

An hour ago, an RBR insider wrote the following:

There is not that much to report. Those gearbox problems in the last race were bigger than people want to let on. Power had to be cut back considerably.
There is now a solution to that. Let's see if that is indeed THE solution under race conditions.

One update in the pipeline is worth 2.5 tenths in the simulator and another even 3 tenths ( and a bit).
Together with the over 4 tenths of reduced power, that does indicate the huge task the competitors have.

Make of this what you will, from Wouterf1 @AS Forum.

[Wazari]

An hour ago, an RBR insider wrote the following:

There is not that much to report. Those gearbox problems in the last race were bigger than people want to let on. Power had to be cut back considerably.
There is now a solution to that. Let's see if that is indeed THE solution under race conditions.

One update in the pipeline is worth 2.5 tenths in the simulator and another even 3 tenths ( and a bit).
Together with the over 4 tenths of reduced power, that does indicate the huge task the competitors have.

Make of this what you will, from Wouterf1 @AS Forum.

Don't know about the updates, but there was a potentially a big issue with both gearboxes at the last race. Electronics issue caused downshifting issues that could have caused severe damage to the gearbox itself. PU had to be dialed back to mitigate potential damage plus drivers forced to lift before downshifts. A software patch should solve the issue.

[Wouter]

An hour ago, an RBR insider wrote the following:

There is not that much to report. Those gearbox problems in the last race were bigger than people want to let on. Power had to be cut back considerably.
There is now a solution to that. Let's see if that is indeed THE solution under race conditions.

One update in the pipeline is worth 2.5 tenths in the simulator and another even 3 tenths ( and a bit).
Together with the over 4 tenths of reduced power, that does indicate the huge task the competitors have.

Make of this what you will, from Wouterf1 @AS Forum.

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Don't know about the updates, but there was a potentially a big issue with both gearboxes at the last race. Electronics issue caused downshifting issues that could have caused severe damage to the gearbox itself. PU had to be dialed back to mitigate potential damage plus drivers forced to lift before downshifts. A software patch should solve the issue.

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Thank you very much for the confirmation @Wazari-san!