Red Bull's RB18 was dominant but its next iteration has been even more so. Mark Hughes reveals how the rest of the field has been caught out and recalls another occasion it's been slow in picking up on Adrian Newey's innovations
The way that Red Bull's rivals have been left even further behind in 2023 than was the case last season, the first year of the all-new aero regulations, is counter-intuitive. There was widespread expectation that with Red Bull having shown the optimum solution to the regulations, there would be a lot of copy-cat cars in '23 and Red Bull would have more competition, not less.
This has all the hallmarks of the competition not having understood what last year's Red Bull's real advantage was. They could see where it was great – how it could seem to retain big downforce at low ride heights and high (and thus fast corner and slow) and how it carried less drag for a given level of downforce – but perhaps they all missed how that advantage was being conferred...
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