Adrian Newey feels Red Bull spent too long developing its 2021 F1 car and it left the squad with 'a lot to do' to defend its title this year.
Many teams opted to end their development early in 2021 to focus on the overhauled regulations for 2022, but Red Bull opted to keep bringing updates to successfully help Verstappen’s title bid.as the RB18 won International Racing Car of the Year, the gong being collected by Newey and the Red Bull technical team.
Newey said the success of the RB18 car had been “very special”, particularly given the late switch to focusing on 2022 that he thinks could perhaps have come sooner. “We had quite a short development period, particularly because we kept developing last year’s car in the battle for the championship, arguably longer than we should have done,” Newey told Motorsport.com after collecting the award.
“That gave us a lot to do over the winter. What we tried to focus on was getting the fundamentals of the car right as this year’s car, and then hoping that would give us the development potential to kind of refine it.Photo by: Nils Jorgensen /
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