Simulator secrets spilled about sensational Red Bull RB20’s gains
"‘How did you do that?’ That is the question.♔ Where did those ideas come 🦋from?"

The Red Bull RB20 was 💞already൩ showing proof last year in the simulator that it would be even quicker than 2023’s car.
Red Bull have obliterated their competition in the first two grands prix of this year, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen winning both and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez finishing second in both.
Liam Lawson, the Red Bull junior 🌜who impressed for sister team Alp𝓀haTauri last year, has shared the secrets which he discovered about the RB20.
“I was pretty aware that it’d be competitive,” he told th🥀e ༺.
“There is always 𓃲talk and hype over the off✨season about teams coming closer.
“Everyone is developing but, at the end of the day, when everyone catches up, Red Bull are developinꦰg and moving away at the same time.
“Last year, when we did some of the development for the car, I did time in the simulator. I knew the performance gains that ♐were coming.
“I knew the car was already winning at that point. If 💞you’re finding time ꦬin the sim for next year’s car you know it will be even quicker.
“It was a pretty good indicator that it would be good. But honestly, n💟ot this goo𝓰d!”

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz is in awe of the RB20.
“I didn’t get to see prol🐎onged shots on TV, my job keeps me in the pitlane,” he sa🤪id. “I saw it in testing on TV monitors.
“Even⛎ on a not-very-good T🐬V to study what they were doing, the whole package of the RB20 makes more sense to me now.
“I focused on the vertical inlets and🌄 the F18 Concorde-style air intakes under the crash s𒀰tructure.
“The more it makes sens෴e. But it’s a red herring. Yes, they are cool.
“But it’s all just to make the mother and father of all undercuts underneath thatಌ sidepod, and on top of the floor.
“I’d love to see t🔴he bottom of the floor. Hopefully 🍸for Max and Checo’s sake they don’t have a crash so we don’t get pictures.
“It must have been an area of hugꦉe development, as well.
“The more you look at th🌠e RB20, the more it makes sense.”
Confidence in their extraordinary car means Versta𝓰ppen and Perez are able to deliver their best drives, a🃏s a result.
Kravitz said: “That stable and efficient aero platform leads to more 𒅌optimised tyre wear. Max said it is really good o🐷n tyre wear.
“It is a car for all tracks, all conditions.”
The RB20 initially shocked onlookers at its unveiling after appa♍rently following a different concept to last year’s car, which dominated the F1 championship.
Kravitz said: “It is such a good car. I am waiting to ജsit down with Adrian Newey, Ben Waterhouse, Pierre Wache to say ‘how did you do that?’
🎉“That is the qu🍌estion. Where did those ideas come from?
“Was i𓂃t just to get the huge undercut? Moving the cooling and sidepod entry was just to allow for that.
“‘I want this massive undercut where I can basically p🌳ut my suitcase in it, because it’s so big!’
“How are we going to do that? You can’t put th🐷e sidepods there, th🗹e cooling there… so let’s move that.
“A hugely impressive car.”

Ja༒mes ౠwas a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.