To move forward, any solution is welcome. Even one that concerns the decoration of the car. This is the situation of Red Bull at the moment. Without a single victory for 7 races and the Spanish Grand Prix last June, the Austrian team is desperately looking for solutions to its problems.
In this race against time, the Red Bull army is working hard to get its hands on all its problems in order to remedy them. While waiting for technical developments and resolutions, Red Bull is looking for other ways to get back on track, or at least to try not to continue to sink. Thus, after reflection, it was decided to put aside the next special liveries, expected in Singapore this weekend for the first and in Austin during the next meeting of the calendar (October 18-20).
Launched at the beginning of the year, the “Rebl Customs” campaign was to allow fans to propose special liveries that would later be used in the season. This was the case at Silverstone last July for the first, and therefore the last. Participants were informed by mail that the second and third liveries would not be used because they implied a certain weight gain on the RB20.
” Unfortunately, when we got to the testing phase of what some of the Rebl Customs designs might look like, in real life, on the RB20, we found that the paint used to create these bespoke liveries across the entire car added an unintended and excessive amount of weight to the RB20 body.says Red Bull. As you can imagine, any additional weight compromises performance and the team continues to prioritise the competitiveness of this car until the end of the 2024 season.. » Proof that Red Bull is definitely no longer in the shoes of the hunted, if not the hunter.
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