How F1’s tech war has transformed in 2024
Red Bull has lost its dominant position in Formula 1 as it, like many other teams, hits development roadblocks. JAKE BOXALL-LEGGE finds out why motorsport’s cleverest brains are struggling to add performance – and even, in many cases, having to remove ‘upgrades’ from their cars…
At the height of 2023’s most predictable phase, when Max Verstappen victories were as assured as death and taxes, much of the Formula 1 fanbase and fraternity medicated itself on the notion that convergence was around the corner.
This isn’t the sort of pursuit that happens overnight. Red Bull’s grasp of the 2022-spec aerodynamic regulations needed to be fully autopsied by the other nine teams to understand where their own interpretations had gone wrong.
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