The development Red Bull must find to give Verstappen 'free' lap time
The RB18 is undoubtably one of the best chassis produced by Red Bull in Formula 1 , having taken 17 wins over the course of a 22-race season.
It is a remarkable achievement after F1 radically changed its car design rules to make the racing closer for 2022, which in turn led to a lot of teams suffering from a porpoising and bouncing phenomenon at the start of the season.
Red Bull appeared to be the only team without any proposing issues, but Max Verstappen reveals there were still some "unexpected" problems with the RB18 in an exclusive interview with TheFOXposts.Com .
"We could more or less just focus on weight reduction and performance," he explains.
"But that weight reduction was really unexpected, so while other teams were solving their porpoising we were solving our weight.
"It's very expensive, which is a problem. With a budget cap, when you have already calculated certain upgrades and you suddenly have to shift it to weight reductio...