Tech Show: Red Bull's rear wing issues and the complexities of airflow reattachment
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What technical issues will influence Red Bull's performance heading into Spa?
Coming up, we look ahead to Spa and ask whether Red Bull can get on top of its revolving rear wing issues and whether Mercedes' Silverstone wheel shield issue was a one-off. Plus, Gary answers questions about gear ratios, driver weight and front wing adjustments. Welcome to the Race F1 Tech Show. I'm Ed Straw and with me is Gary Anderson and we're going to look a little bit ahead to the Belgian Grand Prix and also back a bit at what happened at Silverstone and some of the technical matters arising. Gary, good point of the season this is, isn't it? Going back to Spa, everyone enjoys going there. You had a few enjoyable moments that particular track.
Yeah, I mean, Spa's a fantastic track. It's a challenge for the drivers, it's a challenge for the engineers. It's great, you know, the amount of enthusiasm from the crowd, just the atmosphere is fantastic. It's changed about over the years, more in the safety sort of way, you know, through El Rouge, etc., etc., It's still a daunting type of track for a racing car and for a racing driver to get the best out of it. Commitment, you need to get the best out of it. A little bit worried about coming into this year because at Silverstone we did see a little bit of the yo-yo effect coming in again, what we hadn't seen since, well, didn't see it really at Barcelona, we didn't see it really at Monaco obviously.
But once you get to these tracks where you want more deployment relative to what you can harvest, then it becomes a little bit trickier. I just sort of wish that they would down the electrical output, you know, just change the amount of kilowatts that you can use per lap to allow you not to need to do that because it would reduce the overall horsepower. But, you know, the reality of it is it reduces the overall horsepower for everybody, not just for one driver, but it means you've got it for longer. And that's really what we want. We don't want to see this limited amount of extra power for the limitation of time that we're seeing it on. So there is things that could be done pretty quickly. But again, I don't think it will detract from spa that much or I'd be disappointed if it does and the governing body doesn't step in and actually change some things.
And even then, you know, again, it's the teams, you know, they should be pushing for that. You know, I know there's some teams and some drivers that can make better use of it, maybe, is the best way of putting it. But it's just, it's the racing that counts, you know.
Why did Red Bull's revolving rear wing cause consecutive problems for Verstappen?
Whenever you pass somebody because you've got an extra, you know, 100 horsepower or whatever, you haven't really passed anybody. You've just, you know, indicated, pulled out and driven past them. I want to see racing again. And I think the racing drivers that we know that are real racing drivers want to do the same thing. They want to have the challenge of an overtake being an overtake. So let's wake up to the reality of what racing really is. And it doesn't actually make the entertainment better. It doesn't make the show better overall. It gives you a bit of excitement for a minute or two because Joe Bloggs has passed away. X, Y, Z. But, you know, it's artificial. It's not real. So we want real racing.
And sorry to have a bit of this early on in this podcast, but, you know, we've had what, nine races, I think, is something like that. But, you know, and the same problem to a lesser degree is still hanging in there.
Yeah, ultimately, I think the whole evidence of the season so far is that you don't want these drive-by passes. I keep seeing the argument that, well, it was the same under DRS, but there's criticism of DRS quite rightly as well. You want something a little bit better, but that's probably a deeper discussion for another day, and we have talked about it on previous episodes. So we've got a few other things to tackle today. Now, going to Spa, at the time of recording, we don't know what Red Bull's doing with its troublesome... rotating flip top rear wing whatever you like to call it max verstappen had that off in the british grand prix which was sort of similar to that austria off but the team has said that it was a problem but a different problem to the austria one i should have the heading to spa the fi was in discussion with both red bull and ferrari over the designs of the revolving rear wings to establish whether there's an inherent safety issue so gary how do you see this
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