Red Bull had to fix wind tunnel correlation issue with 2020 car

Red Bull revealed its 2021 RB16B on Tuesday morning , and the team hopes that the car has banished the anomalies that hindered its progress last year. Red Bull’s RB16 machine had several spins during winter testing 12 months ago, a problem that continued when the pandemic-delayed season got underway. The team initially attributed the spins to its drivers finding the limit, before accepting that it had something going wrong aerodynamically after the opening rounds of the season revealed the scale of its gap to the Mercedes squad at the head of the pack. Red Bull’s approach of bringing regular updates to the RB16 throughout last season helped it close the gap to Mercedes, and Horner hopes this decision will pay off with the RB16B in 2021 – along with its efforts to address problems related to the design stage. “We’ve worked very hard to understand why we struggled for correlation at the beginning of last year,” the Red Bull team principal told Motorsport.com. “When it [the season] eventually got going, compared with what our simulation tools were telling us – both wind tunnel and other tools [something was amiss]. “So, we learned a lot during 2020. And, of course,… Read full this story

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