Red Bull Set to Make Yet Another Ground-Breaking Progress at Milton Keynes Following Honda F1 Engine Takeover

Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport. It’s a sport where designers and mechanics spend years and millions of dollars to shave off milliseconds from their lap time. The more aerodynamically advanced a car is, the better its chances are to win championships. Red Bull, being amongst all, devises a new plan.

The Milton-Keynes-based team is set to develop a new wind tunnel, and it is in the approval phase as stated by Helmut Marko, Red Bull’s Chief Advisor. The state-of-the-art technology will be based within their campus at Milton Keynes. Much like Ferrari’s base in Maranello, where everything is under one roof, including the think tank, wind tunnel, production, simulator, engine factory. As the F1 cars have become increasingly competitive over the years, the step is the need of the hour to stay competitive in the sport.

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Talking about the newly proposed wind tunnel, Adrian Newey, Red Bull’s chief technical officer, conveyed, “It just takes too long before we can ramp up to the desired wind speed. And that robs us of significantly relevant wind tunnel time that we are actually entitled to.”

“I would limit everything fully to CFD development. Unfortunately, there are not enough votes for it, although it would be much more sustainable. The usual suspects are against it.”, the Red Bull official further stated.

Apart from Red Bull, who else is a part of the wind tunnel game?

Apart from the Austrian team, Aston Martin and McLaren are in the race to make wind tunnels to extract the best aerodynamic advantages. Each wind tunnel costs about 50-75 million euros and it is believed to be the final step before they catch the top teams in F1.

F1 is largely an aerodynamic sport. The engineers use a special type of tunnel called a wind tunnel to check the airflow in their car. Apart from the wind tunnel, they use a special technology called CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics).

It is also believed that Red Bull is forced to build the wind tunnel, as the test runs are too expensive to conduct. Moreover, with a stricter budget cap in place, that seems to be the only way out. However, F1 is planning to ban the use of wind tunnels from 2030. The aerodynamic development would only rely on the CFD from that year onwards.

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