Red Bull Formula 1 believes that its rival team Mercedes enjoys a “quite powerful” benefit from its rear suspension. It believes that remaining F1 races would provide an edge for the exploitation of its rear suspension.
Mercedes brilliant rear suspension has pressurized its rival. Because its cars back ends are believes to drop down on high speed on the straights.
This phenomena help the team to reduce the drag on the car. Hence, providing additional pace to the car. Red Bull pointed that Mercedes enjoyed the same benefit at the recent Turkish Grand Prix.
Christian Horner, Red Bull team boss, mentioned Mercedes’ performance in Istanbul at the stage of United States Grand Prix. He added that circuits like one in Istanbul suits well the design of Mercedes.
“I think that Mercedes are obviously optimising a straightline device that they’re able to do at that type of circuit,” Horner told Sky in Austin during FP1. “If you look at the rear of their car, how it lowers, I think [Turkey] played to their strengths.”
Horner suggested that few of the remaining races on F1 calendar will be perfect for Mercedes.
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“It will have a greater influence at some tracks than others,” said Horner. “It was a reduced effect here [in the United States] but somewhere like Jeddah for example, it could be quite powerful.”
Red Bull is impressed with clever design of rear suspension that Mercedes brought. He believes that the rival team is well within F1 regulatory bounds.
“We don’t feel that it is illegal, no,” said Horner. “It’s something that has been used historically. We’ve seen it used by them in the past.
“But obviously, what we saw in Turkey was quite an extreme version of it, which that circuit seemed to allow.”
Mercedes remained humble of what it has done and thinks RB is exaggerating the affect of it.
Toto Wolff, Team boss, said: “I think we recognise absolutely that this is a sport where competitors will always try to find out if there is some kind of silver bullet.
“My experience is there is no such thing. It’s all the small gains, marginal gains that have been added and bring performance.
“We’re trying to really comprehend our car better and add performance in lap time without listening too much to the noise.”
