After Haas showed the decoration of its car for the 2022 season this Friday, Red Bull will be the second team to make a launch of the car that it will use in this year’s campaign, in which an important regulation change will be introduced. , the most since 2014.
On February 9 the Milton Keynes outfit will reveal the RB18 , although this seems to be symbolic, because Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko explained that fans will not have to analyze the images from next week, since, technically, there will be little to investigate.
“The presentation is important for the fans and for our sponsors, but we are not going to show any special details of the car yet,” Marko told German broadcaster Sport1 .
“The new car will only be ready just before the start of the first day of testing in Barcelona on February 23.” It means that, as expected, the presentation is to create expectation, and that Red Bull does not want the competition to see the team’s developments, something logical given the long period that elapses between the presentation and the tests in Barcelona, even longer until the first weekend of racing in Bahrain.
Marko added that Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez’s car will look slightly different at Shakir than the creation that will arrive in Catalonia. “After the Barcelona test, the car will continue to develop. For the first race in Bahrain on March 20, there will be another update.”
This means that Red Bull , like many other teams, will continue to tweak their car until the traffic lights go out, and also that the approach will be radically different from last year.
According to Marko, this decision is related to the change of the technical regulations. “Last season the rules stayed more or less the same, so we decided to have the car ready well before the 2021 season and that decision worked out very well.”
“But this year it’s the opposite. This time, everyone wants to be ready as late as possible so as not to give hints too early,” the 78-year-old Austrian concluded.
