Their engine is really fast in a straight line. They are really the only ones running that spec. Alpha Tauri is a sister team, riunning the Honda too, but they don’t get the stop engine. Similar to Ferrari customers.
Also Adrian Newey, the Chief engineer/designer of the car. He just really got it right. I think his years in Indycar helped when F1 went back to ground effects. He had good experience with that in Indy. It seems RB was the least affected by porpoising last year. I think that helped them focus on the speed of the car as opposed to trying to fix porpoising.
This is the reason. Max is a great driver, but the car makes that big of a gap. Newey is light years ahead on the ground effect downforce. This is also why Ashton Martin, jumped up, they took Newey's number two, and magically have a car that is better balanced than everyone but Red Bull.
I will say this, I don't think we can fully judge the cars until they get back to Europe. The upcoming street circuits will give us some weird results. But RB appear to be way out front, if that isn't true the whole season, that will be a surprise to me.
Will be interesting if Merc radically changes their car during the year, or if they throw in the towel, and put all their 2023 development into 2024.
Looks like Alpine had a decent car, Gasly drove through the field, so that will help the midfield.
Someone get Williams some downforce.
Haas, why do you ever start a race on a harder tire. That was dumb.
Ferrari, will they ever stop blowing up? At some point this will hurt road car sales right?
Someone get Lando new car. Maybe a new team, kid deserves better than having to drive that piece of garbage. They may end up 10th this year.
Also I hope Piastri is loving his Zak Brown money. He has to be thining he made a bad move. A) I would much rather be Ocon's teamate than Lando, but I also would much rather drive an Alpine that can go from 20th to 8th than a Mclaren that will go from 8th to 20th.
