Why Red Bull’s surprising 2024 car should scare its F1 rivals

Red Bull has flipped the script in F1 launch season by revealing a surprisingly different 2024 car that has some ideas its fierce rival Mercedes has now abandoned.

This was a handy time for Red Bull to buck its usual trend of not showing a real car at its launch, as seeing some striking RB20 details helped prevent the launch from being overrun by the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner.

Horner is the subject of an external investigation started by Red Bull’s parent company in the wake of serious allegations. He’s continuing in his role while this takes place, and was front and centre at the car launch.

0:00 RB20 launch
1:55 Mercedes inspiration?
4:40 Surprising its own drivers
7:38 The elephant in the room

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[projectneovice]

Newey saw the W14 and was like: "I can fix him."

[AndrewTan-random]

Newey really said to Mercedes: Skill issue

[ilhamrafi]

Ain't no way that meme where Adrian Newey was looking closely at Mercedes W14 as if he was scanning and think "I can fix her" was real 😂

[KayzerTudor]

Imagine if Red Bull remove theirs sidepods at the Bahrain testing lmao

[jinzo]

Adrian was like "Hmm, let me move the goalpost in the opposite direction now."

[MuhammadImHardBruceLee]

Convergence: I am inevitable...

Adrian Newey: And I am... Aero Man...

[CaliKorleone]

Imagine the RB 20 doesn't work. Then Red Bull just brings back the RB 19 and continues to dominate.

[mordor]

Its so weird that right when litrrally every team is copying the RB19 with the underbite sidepods, redbull does the opposite and creates a car like the W14 with vertical intake, an overbite etc

[ashstunes]

Horner said “change your fucking car” and Adrian said “hey can I try”

[tastewithjase]

Red Bull are so dominant the 2024 car is the result of a bet between Horner and Newey, where Horner bet Newey even he couldn't fix the Mercedes.

[johnvito]

Newey: Mercedes has some fantastic ideas, its just that the rest of the car is shit

[richardvowler]

Feel like the race is the main F1 channel to watch for news better than Sky Sports by far

[hangingchad_]

I couldn't believe they took so much inspiration from Mercedes. I guess Mercedes were on the right track in some areas.

[FabledGentleman]

When Adrian Newey has achieved his setting, the opposition starts sweating.

[tamoghnadas]

Imagine if RB makes the merc concept work😂
Biggest UNO reverse ever😂

[ptbot]

RB: "Are you not entertained!"

Bravo, especially when RB is the last to reveal, save the best for last indeed.

[ImmaBeBored]

Funny how most cars start looking like The RB18 and 19. Just to have Red bull do something completely different with RB20 😂

[bbbenj]

If this car works as interned, it'll be a huge slap in the face to other teams!

[BlagoP]

Mike Elliott is watching this and he's like "I told you guys".

[layeththesmacketh]

Just when the other teams think they have the answers, Red Bull seems to change the questions. RB seems just in another realm 🤯