This article was contributed by Henk Ormel, who has been a much beloved member of our community at Wheel Sports and an incredibly insightful eye for feedback on technical matters. There has been a lot written about the dominance of the RB19. Was it more dominant than the Mercedes between 2014 and 2020? Was it more …
In the high-octane world of Formula 1, the relationship between a driver and their race engineer is pivotal. For Max Verstappen and Gianpiero Lambiase, this relationship has been a cornerstone of their success at Red Bull. However, recent developments have brought Lambiase’s ‘biggest fear’ about their future cooperation into the spotlight. The Formidable Partnership Verstappen …
This post was contributed by Rob Beltman, who has an incredibly insightful eye for racing matters. This weekend in Mexico, all eyes are soundly focused on one man and one man only. Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez. The talk of the town for multiple reasons, not the least of all is the continuing rumors of his racing career …
This post was contributed by Henk Ormel, who has been a much beloved member of our community at Wheel Sports and an incredibly insightful eye for feedback on technical matters. This is a phrase you hear a lot during the Japanese GP weekend. Is this statement true? I don’t think so. McLaren was the only team …
The 2023 Formula One season has been a Red Bull Racing spectacle, with the team securing victory in every race. However, the Singapore Grand Prix weekend brought an unexpected twist to the narrative. For the first time since the 2018 Russian Grand Prix, Red Bull failed to get one of its cars into Q3, and …
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This post was contributed by Rob Beltman, who has an incredibly insightful eye for racing matters. This Sunday I was once again reminded of a scene from the first Matrix movie, where Agent Smith lets us in to a little secret about The Matrix, the simulation world in which humans are captured while their bodies power …
This post was contributed by Henk Ormel, who has been a much beloved member of our community at Wheel Sports and an incredibly insightful eye for feedback on technical matters. As a hobby aerodynamicist without the fancy computer tools, I do have an idea how the Red Bull RB 19 is quick in a straight line …
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This post was contributed by Henk Ormel, who has been a much beloved member of our community at Wheel Sports and an incredibly insightful eye for feedback on technical matters. The impression exists that the RB19 is an improved RB18. However the RB19 produces its downforce completely different to the RB18. At the RB18 started to …
There’s a lot of talk about this being the most dominant a season ever in F1 already, with Hamilton saying that the RB19 is the most dominant car he’s ever seen. Perhaps this is true because he was sitting in the one he was driving in 2014 and therefore couldn’t see it. Mercedes was the …
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This post was contributed by Henk Ormel, who has been a much beloved member of our community at Wheel Sports and an incredibly insightful eye for feedback on technical matters. After a lot of searching at good pics of the RB19 and the car on the move during winter testing, i think i figured out …
