The way that stranded cars are retrieved by marshals in Monaco, by being lifted high on cranes rather than on the back of low loaders, meant several stricken machines had their undersides revealed in all their glory after incidents.
Just hours after the Mercedes W14 floor was shown off following Lewis Hamilton’s crash in final practice, Red Bull had to endure its own car’s secrets being put on display as Sergio Perez’s crashed RB19 was lifted off the track in qualifying.
With Red Bull being the pacesetters in F1 right now, the design of the underfloor will have been of big interest to rivals as they try to work out just why the Milton Keynes-based team is so far ahead.
But although the insight will be a help to the opposition, Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko thinks that others will still struggle to reproduce what his team has done.
Speaking exclusively to Autosport about the situation of the Red Bull floor being revealed, Marko said: “Of course we don’t like it.
“The floor is very important, but if you don’t have the other parts and all the underlying concepts, then it’s not so easy. And the Mercedes car was even longer up in the air.
“But I think nobody was as interested in the Mercedes floor as people were in our car.”
Source: Autosport