Horner: “2024 cars will be Red Bull clones, differences will be closed”

The Milton Keynes club had the luxury of settling on the RB20 2024 design very early this year given the way the 2023 league played out. Single-seaters are getting smaller as other teams make leaps and bounds in adopting the ideas of the RB19, which won 21 of the 22 GPs of the 2023 season.

Speaking about the new RB20, Horner said it will be an “evolution rather than a revolution” compared to the RB19. “All areas of the car have been modifiedand we cannot afford to be complacent. The car is the further development of the central theme. We are not reinventing the wheel, that has largely been the technical path we have taken over the last 12 months.”he added.

The Brit said that the performance differences between the teams’ cars would narrow in 2024, justifying this by saying: “Regulations remain stable and we have reached the top of the curve [απόδοσης] earlier than others, hence the advantages [από την εξέλιξη του αυτοκινήτου] will be limited for us. This will cause the teams’ performance to plummet.

There’s always a reboot next year, and I’m sure you’ll see a lot more cars that probably resemble his philosophy. RB19. If you stagnate in this work, you tend to fall behind. But for us now the advantages [της εξέλιξης του αυτοκινήτου] are minimized”.

Finally, Horner also addressed the downside of the limited time in the wind tunnel for Red Bull. The duration of use of the wind tunnel is staggered each year and depends on the ranking of the previous league: the champion has the fewest and the lowest team has the most.

“Due to the lack of more time in the wind tunnel even though we made the transition early [στο μονοθέσιο του 2024]We had limited time in training compared to most of our opponents. So we were very picky and selective about how we used this time RB20, who will obviously rely on her strengths RB19“explained Horner.