After Mercedes’ Resurgence, Red Bull Doesn’t Expect Rivals to Pursue Same Design Philosophies: “Don’t Think The Cars Will Look Identical”

This year has been a very successful one for Red Bull. They’ve emerged as the most dominant F1 team with arguably the best fastest car design this season. Everyone in the F1 community has been in admiration of the upgrades the team has made on their machine throughout the season.

With having bagged a phenomenal total of sixteen wins this season, most teams might try and adopt the Red Bull way of going about their cars for the upcoming F1 season. However, the Bulls are convinced that the rivals would not adopt their concept.

According to the chief engineer at Red Bull, Paul Monaghan, the rival cars may hold the possibility to resemble the Red Bull look, however, he strongly believes that no one would go on to adopt their car.

As per RaceFans, he explained, “Because the cars are quite equivalent and our freedoms are limited compared to previous years. Simply put, no, I don’t think the cars will look identical.” [Translated from Google.]

“Next season there will be adjustments again, but these will be a lot smaller. Are we all going to have the same solution in the first race? I doubt it, that doesn’t seem to be the way of our sport,” he said in conclusion.

Speaking of car development, Mercedes, who had been struggling the entire season, have finally made their way back to the top of the podium. The US GP upgrades have served the team well in the last couple of races.

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And as he further dive into evolving designs, the budget cap will play a big role in the upcoming season.

Paul Monaghan believes that the budget cap will affect the Red Bull design

While Paul is confident that most teams won’t adopt the dominant Red Bull RB18 style, he also emphasized how the budget cap will end up playing a big role in all this.

He said, “I think the budget cap will mean that people have been working on ideas that they haven’t been able to bring to the job. And that’s why we might see some differences at the beginning of the year.”

Referring to the Flexi floor regulations, he stated that these rules define and dictate the design and form of the car. And having had these new regulations executed this year, it drastically changed the way the cars were designed.

He concluded by saying that next season, there will be ‘new adjustments’ yet again. However, that would result in different solutions for each team.

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As we have seen it happen in the past, which team do you think will end up adopting the car design of one of the top runners?