Man Behind Red Bull Car - Adrian Newey Reveals What Made It So Dominant In 2023

Monday, 27 November 2023 at 12:00

Red Bull Racing chief technical officer Adrian Newey reflected on what helped Red Bull dominate 2023 even more than 2022.

The 2023 season will go down as one of the most dominant one-sided seasons F1 fans have ever seen. Red Bull Racing exceeded not only everybody else's expectations but also their own.

The team's chief technical officer, Adrian Newey, who stands behind the car's technical design, said he "fully expected" the grid to come together in 2023. That was partially true, but not for Red Bull. Speaking to BBC Sport, Newey said:

"Fully expected this year that everything would close up. We managed to get the fundamentals of the car right."

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The interesting thing is the 2023 season would be one of the most evenly-matched seasons in history if we eliminated Red Bull and its drivers. Without them, we would have seven different Grand Prix winners from 4 different teams. Newey continued:

"The good thing about that was it allowed us to take an evolutionary approach, to understand the strengths and weaknesses of last year's car and try to address that appropriately."

Ferrari wanted to challenge Red Bull in 2022 for the title, but the team had a concept of a car that did not offer too much space for evolution and that is where Red Bull gained its advantage.

"We have managed to read regulations changes well and come back with a car we can then evolve. Weight loss was part of it. We never managed to get down to the weight limit last year."

Newey revealed one of the key steps to success in 2023 was being able to bring the weight of their car down. Red Bull Racing CTO added:

"By the end of the season, we were still significantly over, so much more detail through the winter to get the weight off, and then the rest was primarily aerodynamic refinement."