Pink Bull has taken the covers off the automobile Max Verstappen goals to overcome his fifth straight Method 1 drivers’ title with, the RB21.
Forward of F1’s three-day winter take a look at in Bahrain which kicks off on Wednesday, Pink Bull was the final workforce to unveil its up to date automobile design for the upcoming season, the ultimate one underneath the present ground-effect based mostly laws cycle that will probably be pushed by Verstappen and his new team-mate Liam Lawson.
Sporting a really comparable livery to final yr’s automobile, which had already been revealed ultimately week’s F1 75 launch in London, the RB21 is an evolution of the RB20 and has undergone quite a lot of adjustments to handle the automobile steadiness points that plagued its predecessor, though the low-light studio photos launched by the workforce nonetheless rigorously saved most of its secrets and techniques hidden from view.
Verstappen and Pink Bull began the 2024 season in dominant type, however as McLaren caught up after which overtook the Milton Keynes-based workforce, Verstappen and particularly team-mate Sergio Perez began to battle way more with steadiness issues on the RB20. It took till September’s Italian Grand Prix for Pink Bull to realize a deeper understanding of the place it had gone incorrect, however by that point it was too late to keep away from slipping to 3rd behind McLaren and Ferrari.
Pink Bull Racing RB21
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Based on technical director Pierre Wache, Pink Bull has been arduous at work to make its new automobile simpler to steadiness and arrange, however with out compromising the automobile’s peak efficiency potential.
“The principle factor that you’re making an attempt to realize is a steadiness between making a automobile that’s faster than the others and making it good to drive in order that drivers can extract probably the most from it,” Wache informed Motorsport.com. ” that if you happen to enhance the [operating] window you additionally cut back the general potential.
“In 2023 we had been proved that our path was right as a result of we had been faster than the others. Final season we had been proved that we weren’t right. Each time there’s a restrict when the steadiness takes the profit in comparison with the general potential of the automobile. Now we have to repair it for this yr.”
Method 1’s pre-season formally will get underneath means on Wednesday at 7am GMT, when testing begins in Bahrain.
Images of the Pink Bull Racing RB21
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
Pink Bull Racing RB21 unveil
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Filip Cleeren
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