In the wake of Red Bull’s total domination of F1 in 2023, it is anticipated that its competitors will converge on the concept that the Milton Keynes-based team has put to such good use since the latest ground effect era started.
That should, in theory, help deliver a much closer battle throughout the 2024 season with much of its main opposition having gone the wrong way with their car designs last year.
But Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache thinks that other teams will need to go further than just trying to repeat what his squad has done.
He suggests that more important to unlocking speed is getting to the bottom of why it has done things the way it has.
“I think it’s possible to copy, but in every business in the world, when it’s technical, the ‘how’ is one aspect,” he told Autosport. “The most important aspect is ‘why’.
“If you don’t know ‘why’, you can copy whatever you want, but it’s better to stay with what you understand.”
Wache said that copying other teams' ideas was commonplace in F1 and something his squad did from time to time.
Source: Autosport