{"id":653802,"date":"2026-05-06T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:00:09","slug":"the-transformative-upgrades-that-contributed-to-red-bulls-dramatic-turnaround-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653802\/","title":{"rendered":"The transformative upgrades that contributed to Red Bull&#8217;s dramatic turnaround in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Red Bull\u2019s dramatic competitive turnaround in Miami \u2013 with Max Verstappen qualifying on the front row ahead of McLaren, Ferrari and George Russell\u2019s Mercedes \u2013 coincided with another major upgrade of the RB22. Although this was just one race later than the car\u2019s last aerodynamic upgrade, it came one month later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Front wing, brake ducts, floor, sidepods, engine cover, diffuser and rear wing were all changed in what was a very major project, to which was added some cockpit changes and a steering rack modification to give <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoibWF4X3ZlcnN0YXBwZW5fbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2RyaXZlcnMvbWF4LXZlcnN0YXBwZW4iLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/max-verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> a better feeling of control in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull\u2019s dramatic competitive turnaround in Miami \u2013 with Max Verstappen qualifying on the front row ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-653802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}