Slimming cure for Red Bull
The Austrian team will bring improvements to their RB18 in Spain in order to reduce its weight.
It’s one of the biggest challenges of the season, weight reduction. With the new regulations, F1 team engineers are using their brains to find solutions and reach the minimum weight set at 798 kg. Only Alfa Romeo has managed to achieve this weight.
In order to get as close as possible to this set limit, the teams have found some tricks. For example, Williams has stopped painting parts of their single-seater and McLaren has removed water from Daniel Ricciardo’s tank.
But Red Bull is said to have found a technical solution, which it should bring and install on the RB18, during the Spanish Grand Prix, in a week.
“We will have new parts, with which we can finally reach our optimal weight. So far, we were well above the minimum required weight of 798 kilograms,” revealed Helmut Marko, head of the young driver program at the Bull brand, to our colleagues at F1-insider.com.
This new package could allow the Austrian team to stay in the fight with Ferrari for the driver and constructor titles, as both teams have been battling relentlessly since the beginning of the season. In the driver standings, while Charles Leclerc took off in the first races, Max Verstappen has started to close the gap in the recent events.
