Verstappen and Perez definitely back to the old floor? Horner responds
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The new floor is not doing what was expected at Red Bull Racing. After the summer break, Max Verstappen went back to the old concept at Zandvoort, and the Austrian team also experimented again at Monza. Christian Horner does not yet want to say whether his team will say goodbye to the latest floor specification for good.
Things are not going well at Red Bull, and one of the reasons for that is the modification to the floor. But has the new floor now been ruled out? "No, not yet. I think you've got to look at all aspects of the car. There's a balance issue with the car that isn't allowing the drivers to commit to corner entry. So as soon as you've calmed down the rear, you do that by compromising the front. "
The Milton Keynes-based team has yet to find a solution to this. The back end of the RB20 is shaky, but any adjustment to it seems to cause other problems to rear up. "you end up with understeer, and then you kill your tyre that way," the British team boss continued."What we need to do is really get the map into focus."
RB20 too complex
While Red Bull struggles to be competitive on different types of circuits, rival McLaren does not. They seem to have got it - pretty much - right every weekend from moment one."If you look at the McLaren, it almost looks like an evolution of last year's car. A much simpler car than ours. Perhaps we [the RB20] have gone a little too complex," Horner said.
This article was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy
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