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In the midst of Red Bull’s struggles with its RB20 F1 car in 2024, it suspected one limitation in particular – to do with a “relic of the Cold War” – had a big part to play in its correlation issues
During Red Bull’s struggles with its RB20 Formula 1 car last year, the team suspected that correlation problems with its old Bedford windtunnel were a major factor. The lack of consistency between track, CFD data, and windtunnel data prompted an interesting comment from Christian Horner. Red Bull focused on synchronizing the windtunnel with track data to improve performance. Issues with the old windtunnel’s susceptibility to British weather were identified as a challenge. The team aimed to better understand the impact of these quirks before transitioning to a new state-of-the-art facility. However, the challenges posed by the legacy windtunnel technology remained a significant hurdle for Red Bull’s aerodynamic development.
