{"id":9879,"date":"2025-09-08T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9879\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:23:14","slug":"new-max-verstappen-evidence-as-clever-red-bull-trick-spotted-after-italian-gp-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9879\/","title":{"rendered":"New Max Verstappen evidence as clever Red Bull trick spotted after Italian GP pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season Red Bull has relented and designed a low-downforce rear wing specifically for the challenges posed by high-speed circuits. <\/p>\n

But whilst we\u2019d already had a taste of how the solution performed when Max Verstappen took victory in the Sprint at Spa, Red Bull also had an extra trick up its sleeve when it came to qualifying at Monza, where Verstappen used it to snatch an unlikely pole from under the noses of the McLaren duo, whilst recording the fastest lap in Formula 1 history.<\/p>\n

Red Bull cut it fine as Max Verstappen claims Italian GP pole position<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that this is the first time with this generation of car that Red Bull has opted to design a true low-downforce rear wing option, having simply trimmed the upper flap on its pre-existing, higher-downforce options in the past.<\/p>\n

For example, last season, rather than redesigning the mainplane and flap section, as it has this season, Red Bull simply took huge chunks out of the trailing edge of the lowest downforce offering it had at its disposal in an effort to reduce drag (as seen below).<\/p>\n

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Red Bull RB20 trimmed rear wing<\/p>\n

This is the reality of a cost cap and resource restricted formula though, as without those restrictions in place there\u2019s no shadow of a doubt that Red Bull would have designed and manufactured a track specific option, as it has been forced to do this season.<\/p>\n

Instead the team had to focus its attention on more critical design solutions and take the relative pain at venues that required less drag \u2013 a tactic that was undoubtedly employed due to the scarcity of tracks requiring the lowest of downforce configurations.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n

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Interestingly, it set Red Bull in good stead this weekend though, as whilst the original configuration of the wing was used by Verstappen and Tsunoda during Friday\u2019s Free Practice sessions, the former\u2019s wing was fettled further as the team trimmed the trailing edge of the upper flap to reduce drag and help boost the car\u2019s straight line speed for qualifying (below).<\/p>\n

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Red Bull RB21 trimmed low downforce rear wing<\/p>\n

The rear wing, which will be helpful at other venues this season, isn\u2019t the only update introduced by the team either with revisions made to the floor, its fences and the edge wing as Red Bull continue to search for performance.<\/p>\n

The optimisations that have been made aren\u2019t earth shattering or about completely redesigning the floor.<\/p>\n

Rather they are a package of tweaks designed to maximise the performance of the whole floor and take advantage of other changes that the team have made recently.<\/p>\n

The team only had one set of these components available for this race though, with the parts installed on Verstappen\u2019s RB21 and Tsunoda left waiting until next time out.<\/p>\n

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One interesting alteration is at the rear of the edge wing though (above) which sees the inboard support bracket that had previously bridged the corner of the edge wing and floor cutout (inset), moved beneath the floor instead.<\/p>\n

Not only altering how the airflow moves around that region but also likely resulting in a different load characteristic for the two surfaces.<\/p>\n

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