{"id":34092,"date":"2024-02-13T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formula1news.co.uk\/?p=34092"},"modified":"2024-02-13T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:06:39","slug":"romain-grosjean-makes-revelation-about-red-bulls-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formula1news.co.uk\/romain-grosjean-makes-revelation-about-red-bulls-new-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Romain Grosjean makes revelation about Red Bull’s new car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Haas star Romain Grosjean is convinced that RB\u2019s F1 2024 car has provided a “good idea” of what the new Red Bull RB20 will look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red Bull\u2019s junior team unveiled their 2024 car in Las Vegas earlier this week, with the Faenza-based outfit rebranded ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes at the former AlphaTauri squad go way beyond identity, with the team establishing closer ties with the main Red Bull outfit \u2013 the reigning Constructors\u2019 Champions and winners of all but one race last season \u2013 for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new arrangement has been likened to Haas\u2019s relationship with Ferrari, which allows the American team to use as many Ferrari-built parts as is allowed under F1\u2019s regulations, with the new-look RB outfit expected to enjoy a much-improved season as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grosjean, who spent five seasons with Haas between 2016 and 2020, believes the deeper technical partnership is already evident in the design of the new RB \u2013 and believes the car offers clear pointers to the potential design of the RB20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearing via his YouTube channel, Grosjean said of the RB team: \u201cThat\u2019s a long name, but it\u2019s also a pretty cool livery with a lot of painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really like that. I think we\u2019ve seen a lot of cars using carbon and definitely on that one we see the colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFaenza has always been developing and designing their own car for quite a long time, but I think right now they are going to be closer to a Red Bull from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you actually compare between the Red Bull from 2023 and the [RB] from 2024, there\u2019s a lot of common features and I think it totally makes sense for the Faenza team to use what the big-brother Red Bull team has been doing over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been the \u2018developing\u2019 car and it\u2019s a very common sponsor, a very common team owner, so for me it 100 per cent makes sense that they\u2019re going to use as much as they can from what the Milton Keynes-based team is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we look at the front wing, there\u2019s some similarities; if we look at the sidepods, there\u2019s a lot of similarities; if we look at the back end of the car, there\u2019s a lot of similarities; if we look at the rear wing, same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have used a lot of inspiration from Red Bull and they can do that because they use the same gearbox, they use the same engine \u2013 so they have the same cooling requirements \u2013 and obviously that\u2019s something that they did well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we compare the car from 2023 and 2024, we can see that the front wing design has been changed slightly, even though it has some similarities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nose has stayed similar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They went from pushrod to pullrod [suspension] \u2013 again, that\u2019s a Red Bull feature \u2013 [and] the sidepod entry has been really redesigned completely, the rear wing as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the side, we can really see that very specific sidepod design from Red Bull with the front of the sidepod super high, very tiny entry and then trying to put a lot of air underneath it, and at the back trying to have the big slides that come down to the rear diffuser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is very much an inspiration from the Red Bull from last year, but again I think that\u2019s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the fastest car on track, they are using a lot of similar components \u2013 so why not do it when you can do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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