| There’s nothing like a Formula 1 car launch to whet the appetite for the season ahead, but a cynic might say that was nothing like an F1 car launch! What Red Bull revealed was a ‘shape’ of what’s to come, apparently using an F1 2022 show car, but it did display its updated livery – including more Oracle branding than ever and, in a nice touch I thought, HRC logos in place of Honda. However, the pre-season rhetoric absolutely was worth listening to, as design genius Adrian Newey spoke of “a huge regulation change, the biggest one we've had since 1983, when the Venturi cars were banned and flat-bottomed cars were introduced”. Meantime, technical director Pierre Wache noted that “this type of car should be a lot quicker on the straight at these levels of downforce”. Combine all this change with the move to 18-inch wheels and I just can’t wait to see the genuine article run in anger. By: Charles Bradley, Global Editor in Chief
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