Secretive photographs have offered a clue into Red Bull’s problem in Thursday’s F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson’s RB21 caus🍬ed a commotion when it returned to the garage but𒊎 the exact issue was unclear.

However, F1 tech expert Sam Collins thinks he h♐as uncovered the truth.

“I have been spending a lot of time staring a🌌t a lot of photos of the Red Bull,” he said on Sky Sports.

“At the end of [Wednesday] I felt like they didn’t understꩵand the car. If someone came to me and said ‘that’s the car they raced at the end of last year’, I would struggle to disagree.

“However, I have heard on the grapevine tha🎶t the issue Red Bull faced earlier on was a water pressure issue."

Photos offer clue about Red Bull RB21

“I have seen some photos," Collins continued. "Unfo🌺rtunately I can’t share them with you.

“But the phot�✃�os I’ve seen make it clear what’s different about this year’s Red Bull.

“While it looks really simiꦜlar, on the skin, Christian Horner says it’s 99% new and eveꦉry surface is different.

“That’s absolutely right - the m⛄ore you look at the photos, the more yoꦺu see the little differences on the car.

“Every shape is slightly different.

“A producer yesterday pointed out the angle of the front wing endplates is slightly more inward-facing, they point toward the nose more than the𒈔y did in Abu Dhabi last year.

“The concept is th𓆏e same - the pull rod fro🦩nt suspension, the push rod rear.

“That’s a concept that is moving towards being universal for this generation of cars. Unless you speak Italian and you live in Maranello where they chose to do something 🧜different.

“Even🌄 Mercedes would have evolved towards that concept if ൲these rules stayed in place longer.

“Everybody copied Red Bull’s sidepod concept. You can see the protruding upper edge, the vertical cooling slot, the horizontal cooling slot. That’s 𓂃a pure Re🍌d Bull design.

“But wಌhere the big differences are with the Red Bull are underneath the bodywork.

“The water pr♛essure is, I think, relates to the fact thওat they are running a completely new cooling system on the car.

“They have moved the radiators and heat exch♎anges around.

“On the sidepods is a൲ distinctive horizontal V-shape whic🎀h I first saw on Ferrari-powered cars in 2016.

“That concept has ca𓃲rried through to this Red Bull after many years of not really being present in Formula 1.

“So the water pressure issue, with a new cooling system, probably suggests something might not be designed ꧑right, or maybe a bit of pipework is chafing, or it’s not as well manufactured ൩as it should be.

“Or could it be the age-old🔯 problem of finger trouble, where somebody hasn’t bolted something on as tightly as🎐 they should have.

“That’s wꦫ💝hy you go testing - to find these problems.

“But the car concept itself🍌 looks similar to last year.

“The aerodynamic brꦗain power of Red Bull would have been dedicated to this car until January 2. They were not allowed to work on the 2026 car until that date.

“After that date🥃? I don’t know how much goes into 🧸next year’s Red Bull, and how much goes into this year’s Red Bull and its cooling system.”

At first glance, the RB21 which broke cover in ▨2025 did not appear to look significantly di✨fferent to its predecessor.

But Red Bull boss Horner has pointed out that l✨ast year’s car won more races than anybody despite the team conceding the constructorﷺs’ championship to McLaren.

Now with Lawson racing instead of Sergio Perez, Red Bull hope their new🉐 driver can make a diffeꦕrence.

Max Verstappen was u🍌nable to offer much feedback (he did not drive in testing until Thursday) but his desire will be for a car🍸 which is less unpredictable than last year’s RB20.

Verstappen is gunning for a fift🌃h ꧟drivers’ title in a row.