Red Bull Chief Technical officer Adrian Newey says his latest designs fine details are the key to its blistering performance.
The Briton has designed all seven of Red Bulls drivers championship winning cars and has been integral to the Austrian teams recent domination.
The legendary designer said of the RB20: “The underlying architecture of the car is the third-generation evolution of what started as the RB18, where, apart from the radiators, we carry everything: layout of the front suspension, the rear suspension, the gearbox, the casing – it’s a third evolution of the RB18.
“The bits that are visible, that have caused quite a lot of attention, obviously we’re pursuing aerodynamic gains there. The visual change is actually much larger than the performance change you get from that. The other, much more subtle bits that people haven’t noticed are probably responsible for a bigger gain.”
The team based in Milton Keynes has enjoyed a perfect start to the 2024 season, winning both races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Max Verstappen leads the world championship by 15 points over his Mexican team mate Sergio Perez, ahead of the Australian Grand Prix next weekend.
Newey said Red Bull tried to design a car to be competitive on every type of circuit, after floundering at the Singapore Grand Prix last year.
“What we’ve tried to achieve is a car that is reasonably well-suited to all circuits,” commented Newey. “I think typically, last year, the circuits that we had less of an advantage on were the maximum downforce street tracks.
“Singapore, obviously, we famously made a bit of a mess of and underperformed to what we could have achieved. We could have certainly achieved podiums there had we got our act together a bit better.
“But it’s certainly true to say that those circuits are the ones that we probably have less advantage on. As long as we’re not disastrous on them, then maybe that’s good enough.”
