Red Bull emphasizes: No 'Harry Potter'-like solution for Verstappen
18:14, 11 May
Updated: 19:43, 11 May
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Red Bull is determined to chip away at the gap McLaren has on them, but will the changes yield the desired results? It's not Harry Potter time, says chief engineer, Paul Monaghan.
“ It will get us at the majority of them (types of corners, ed.),” explains Monaghan in a conversation with, among others, GPblog in Miami, regarding the upgrades introduced to the RB21.
“Any time you have a change of speed from the point you hit the brakes, turn into the apex, everybody's going to get it (a shift in balance, ed.) and it's just the magnitude we argue over, so it will come as incremental improvements and we'll chip away, we'll get quicker, don't worry.”
Red Bull updates for Imola and no 'Harry Potter'-like solution
Despite team principal, Christian Horner stating Red Bull would be implementing solutions at Imola as well, the Austrian team's chief engineer, remainst particularly coy.
"Well, there may be, yes, I'm not going to confirm or deny any such rumours, you'll have to wait and see what we turn up with. It's not a fixed car is it, we can bring whenever we like, whenever we can, changes, and if that makes us quicker and we can do it, that will come to Imola."
The RB21 struggled with balance and braking issues which of course had an undesired impact on tyre management, overheating the rubber, particularly at the rear.
“It all helps. If you slide around in sort of drift style, your rear tyres are probably going to get a bit too warm. But yes, we've made some steps and we'll continue to make steps. You won't see it, but it's incremental."
"Again, it's not Harry Potter time, it's not touch it with a magic wand and all of a sudden we're away and gone. It's diligent engineering, thorough engineering, clever people and we'll chip away. I didn't see much of a difference in Jeddah, so maybe we're getting better,” he continues.
Monaghan stated that there would be changes under the covers of the RB21, but will they yield enough gains as to close the gap to McLaren, is yet to be seen.
"We're free to do what we want when we can. We've got a headcount, we've got a budget. All these things come in to limit us, but the aim is: build the best car we can and continue to improve it. That's what everybody will do."
"The question is, can we do it quickly enough to haul ourselves back up to overtake anybody ahead of us. So, we'll try,” he concludes.
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