At the event: Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Nyey said the team could be proud to have produced the top car for 2022, despite the year’s championship challenge.
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RB18 ‘Statistically our best car’ – Newey
The machine that won 17 of the 22 races held this year was especially successful in 2018.
“Statistically, the RB18 was our best car,” he said in a video prepared by the team. “It’s a car that I think we’re very proud of, obviously, so we’ve continued to develop the car well into the season.
“Obviously, if you’re going to put research and development into that car when you have limited resources, you’re not going to put that research and development into this new, brand-new car that we know coming in for the new regulations, obviously. “
Red Bull was later found to be over the budget cap for the 2021 season, but the team said they did not benefit from doing so.
In the year They said they faced a “difficult balancing act” in 2021, prioritizing the development of their current and new cars. “We focused on trying to fix the fundamentals and trying to get the package in a way that included front and rear suspension. Monocoque positions, radiator positions and so on. Although not the fastest car to start, we hope to have a pack that can grow in time.
He said the team quickly found the first problems with the car. “In the pre-season test, we were a bit nervous before we got there. We have already done a little research and we know what to do to improve it.
“So when we put the race one pack in Bahrain before the race, that definitely put us a wide step behind Ferrari, let’s say. The car had some weaknesses in the first half of the season, we still have some weaknesses, but we reduced those weaknesses, and definitely had a fully competitive package in the second half.
Horner rejected Ferrari’s role
Ferrari has approached Christian Horner as it seeks a replacement for Mattia Binotto as team principal for 2023.
The long-time leader of the Red Bull team has won both world championships in Formula 1 this year, taking his team to 11 championships and 92 wins overall.
Horner turned down Ferrari’s interest and the Scuderia instead chose Frederic Vasseur, who left his equivalent position at Alfa Romeo to join Ferrari.
Before Vasser was announced as Binotto’s replacement, Horner played down Ferrari’s offer of him. “My commitment is very much with the Red Bull team,” he said. “I’ve been there since the beginning and obviously we have a very close relationship.”
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Maserati continues to lead the Formula E challenge.
Single-seater comeback Maserati repeated their one-day performance by completing both sessions on the second day of Formula E pre-season testing in Valencia.
Maximilian Günter was 0.359 seconds fastest for his team in the morning, ahead of DS Penske’s reigning champion Stoffel Vandoorne and Jaguar’s Mitch Evans.
It was the same top two for the afternoon, with a gap of 0.263s between Ginter and Vandoorne, with Nissan’s Norman Nato in third.
Invision Racing’s Sebastian Buemi had a difficult day, completing just five laps in the morning and not setting a recorded lap time in the afternoon. NIO 333’s Dan Tiktum was unable to make an afternoon round.
In the second session, a 24-lap race was held.
The FIA Court dismissed ACI’s appeal against Beganovic.
Dino Beganovic, a member of the Automobile Clube d’Italia’s Ferrari driver academy, lost an appeal before the FIA’s International Court of Appeal (ICA) in June, centered on his disqualification. Prima Racing went on to win the Formula One Regional European Championship with Paul Ricard at the second race in June when his car failed technical inspections after the race.
The rejection was overturned when Prima successfully appealed the sentence at the National Court of Appeal on September 9, a decision shared on September 30. ACI, which organizes FREC, notified the ICA 10 days later that it intended to appeal that decision, and Beganovic was again provisionally dismissed pending a court hearing.
However, ACI was deemed not to have filed its appeal within time, so the case was dismissed by ICA on procedural grounds. The ACI ordered him to pay Prema’s legal fees and said, “The competent sports authority has decided to issue the consequences of this judgment as appropriate.”
Beganovic is now set to regain the 18 points he lost to Paul Ricard’s penalty. Gabriel had previously defeated Minn by 40 points, so his rejection had no effect on the title fight.
