Ferrari and Mercedes are among four teams to have adopted a clever Red Bull suspension trick for the F1 2024 season, it has been claimed, with Ferrari’s solution described as “even better than the original.” As explained by PlanetF1.com last year, suspension has become one of the most critical areas of an F1 car since the sport’s ground effect regulations were introduced in 2022, crucial to the relationship between the track surface and the car’s underbody.
Red Bull ‘s anti-dive, anti-squat suspension setup was lauded as a key component of the dominant car of F1 2023 as the team produced the most successful season in history, winning 21 of a possible 22 races as Max Verstappen eased to a third successive World Championship. Indeed, it is thought that Adrian Newey – who studied ground effect aerodynamics during his time at university – personally designed the suspension for Red Bull’s original ground effect car in F1 2022, laying the foundation for the team’s astronomical recent success. Red Bull were alone in 2022 in producing a car which lowered its rear end until it stalled at maximum load on the straights, resulting in a huge top-speed advantage over the opposition, with the car’s DRS system designed around optimising this effect.
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