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Unpicking the secrets of Red Bull’s brave new F1 sidepods
Rival teams have been offering their own solutions to Red Bull’s innovative underbite inlet and undercut design. However, Red Bull has made a significant change for the RB20, shifting to an overbite arrangement with a high panel extending the sidepod’s upper surface and a generous undercut below. Although the renders released by the team do not feature the inlet, it has been spotted in physical launches and at Silverstone, located beside the chassis. This vertical inlet design is reminiscent of Mercedes and Ferrari’s past solutions but is a unique hybrid approach by Red Bull. The team’s development focus has shifted towards optimizing the undercut, leading to the introduction of this new vertical inlet design for RB20.
