Red Bull to introduce new parts at Monaco, including reliability upgrades

Following Max Verstappen’s commanding victory at last Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Red Bull have brought a host of upgraded parts for this weekend’s Monaco round to make their RB21 competitive around the narrow streets of the Principality. F1Technical's senior writer Balazs Szabo delivers his latest tech debrief.

As for the track characteristics, Monaco features narrow streets, tight turns, steep climbs and descents and the famous tunnel that leads onto the harbour.

From a technical point of view, it is a very complicated race: the cars run with maximum aero downforce and with very limited overtaking opportunities, qualifying generally plays a key role in determining the winner.

As with their rivals, Red Bull Racing have equipped the RB21 with a higher downforce rear wing in Monaco. The Milton Keynes-based outfit have brought a more loaded rear wing which is supported by an enlarged beam wing.

“The Monaco circuit rearwards aerodynamic load and the enlarged rear wing plus beam wing provides this at the lower car speeds encountered,” the team noted.

Furthermore, there are changes to the front suspension in form of a revised wishbone fairing. With the tweak, Red Bull aims to “attain greater steering lock,” that is why “the lower wishbone fairing has been altered to clear the wheel.”

There are also new front brake ducts for improved cooling. Red Bull have brought revised exit duct and gaitor sealing the upper wishbone “to attain the necessary cooling for the front brakes.”