Red Bull Racing has put itself on pole for F1’s 2023 launch season, with the reigning world champions presenting their campaign on February 3 in New York.
No additional details regarding the team’s presentation have been made public.
After comprehensively dominating last years proceedings, with Max Verstappen winning 15 races and the title, while teammate Sergio Perez added two wins to his team’s tally, Red Bull will likely be hard pressed to do as well.
It’s main rivals – Ferrari and Mercedes – shall be determined to give the bulls a run for their money, with the Scuderia in particular hoping it can field a car that can fight consistently at the front and take the title battle down to the wire.
Furthermore, Red Bull will need to compose with the budget cap sanction for 2023 levied upon it by the FIA and which calls for a 10% reduction in aerodynamic development hours.
Factoring in the reduction associated with its top position in the Constructors, Red Bull is facing a net reduction of windtunnel and CFD time of 63 per cent while runner-up Ferrari will suffer a 75% reduction in aerero development.
The net result is that Red Bull will only have 63 per cent of the baseline testing allocation which allows 400 hours of wind tunnel time over 320 runs, with no more than two runs per day, compared to 75 per cent for Ferrari.
Red Bull chief technology officer Adrian Newey says the sanction will inevitably weigh on the development of the team's 2023 design.
But with its main asset behind the wheel, flying Dutchman Max Verstappen, Red Bull is likely to remain the team to beat in 2023.
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