Vladimir Rys, Oracle Red Bull Racing
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What stands right out on Red Bull's RB21 for Verstappen and Lawson!
While rivals in recent days seemed to make no effort to actually keep quiet on the secrets of their new F1 cars, Red Bull Racing is old-fashioned Red Bull Racing. True, as early as Wednesday, the RB21 will take to the track for the first time in public, but at the unveiling of the Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson's new F1 car a day earlier, there was considerably more that went unseen, than there was to actually admire.
Yes, photos and video footage of the RB21 were shared by the marketing department, but purposefully it was dark and hardly any new details were already visible. Still, there was something that stood out from the start. That would be the nose of the car. In the first photos, it appears to be steeply down and very low. The final flaps of the front wing are almost level with the top of the nose.
Not radical changes everywhere
On the contrary, what appears to have remained similar are the radiator intake, engine cover and side pods. It is known that Red Bull tried several variants for these last year and it seems that no radical adjustment has been made there. Last season's pushrod rear suspension has also remained intact.
Perhaps pictures of the RB21 on the track will come out during Tuesday, showing more of the car, since Red Bull Racing will hold a shakedown with the car before the three-day winter testing ahead of the new F1 season starts.
This article was written in collaboration with Ludo van Denderen.
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