Motorsports
Formula 1: On the track with Max Ferstappen the real Red Bull RB18
Following the presentation of its sponsors at its rudimentary demo car two weeks ago, Red Bull Racing unveiled its real new car, the RB18, at the start of Formula 1’s winter testing earlier this morning.
At the February 9th event, the RBR had shown nothing other than the F1 demonstration car, designed to this year’s new technical regulations and painted in its colors. It was a presentation by Milton Keynes’ team sponsors, as they admitted much later.
Today, however, Max Ferstappen hit the track in Barcelona with the real RB18, the real new RBR car for 2022 – which will no doubt receive some modifications until the first race of the season – on March 20 in Bahrain – but at least it is it normal racing car.
Red Bull Racing clocked the first mileage of the real RB18 at Silverstone last week as part of the first of two days of filming each team is entitled to during the year, but has opted not to release images at this time.
The car of the new Formula 1 world champion shows Adrian Newey’s very interesting design of the side air intakes and the bonnet, but otherwise does not reveal any innovation at first glance that Milton Keane’s design team could have invented.
The new RB18 carries the No. 1 chosen by Ferstappen this year – as the previous champion is entitled to it every year. We had several years to see this number on a sports car when Lewis Hamilton decided to compete with his own number 44, while Nico Rosberg abruptly departed shortly after winning the 2016 title.
From today to Friday (25/2) the first of two three days of development testing of the 2022 cars will take place, the second will take place in Bahrain on March 10-12, a week before the first three days of the season.
Sophia Jhon is a sports journalist and author. He has worked as a news editor for Sportish and is now a sport columnist for the same publication. Alberta’s professional interests lie largely in sports news, with an emphasis on English football. He has also written articles on other sporting topics.