Verstappen Suggests Improvements For Red Bull's 2024 RB20 Car

Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 11:00

The triple World Champion Max Verstappen shared what aspects of the Red Bull car he would like to see improve for the 2024 car.

Red Bull Racing's 2023 car RB19 has been one of the most dominant cars Formula One has ever seen in its history, and Max Verstappen achieved a remarkable 19 wins with it in 22 races.

While the Dutchman would like to achieve 20 wins in his next year's RB20, he has adjusted his expectations after the super successful 2023 season as he suggested other teams will close the gap to Red Bull going into the next season.

Many F1 experts praised the Red Bull Racing team, its engineers, and the Chief Technology Officer Adrian Newey for building the most complete and versatile car on the grid in 2023, which could perform well on just about any track.

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On the other hand, when the media asked Verstappen what are the weaknesses of the car, the 26-year-old revealed there are certain aspects he would change:

"We know our weaknesses in the car. That's what we'll try to work on plus, of course, trying to make our strengths even stronger."

There has been only one race in 2023 that exposed Red Bull's weaknesses - Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore. It has been the only race that Red Bull didn't win this season.

Look at our race weekend in Singapore. In general, on street circuits, I think we are a bit struggling a bit more like in Vegas also."

The race in Las Vegas was expected to not completely suit Red Bull as it was very similar in characteristics to the track in Singapore.

However, Red Bull showed significant progress as the team managed to identify the issues from the Singapore Gand Prix to improve for Las Vegas and win the race in the end.

Verstappen suggested the nature of street circuits did not suit RB19 the best. Interestingly, it is quite opposite to what Sainz identified suited Ferrari in 2023. The Red Bull driver added:

"Low speed is definitely not our strongest point in the car; bumps, curbs as well. So that's definitely a big area where we can improve."