Red Bull could introduce a Mercedes-style ‘zeropod’ design to their F1 car after the oꦜpening 𓂃races of the 2024 season, it has been reported.

The reigni🎉ng world champions are “poised to further replicate previous Mercedes F1 car designs ꧑by moving towards a ‘zeropod’-style concept with its first major upgrade of 2024”, according to .

Autosport report that Red Bull’s current RB20 design will only be used in Bahrain for both pre-season testing and the race, Saudi Arabia ♏and Australia, where conditions are expected to be hot.

With cooling anticipatedꦕ to be less marginal at the Japanese Grand Prix in early April, Red Bull are set to unleash an upgrade that will mimic Merced🎀es’ controversial ‘zeropod’ concept.

Mercedes finally abandoned their ‘zeropod’ design at last year’s Monaco Grand Prix to move to a more conventional sidepod concept after its real-world performance f🍌ailed to match up to the numbers being produced in the wind tunnel.

With most of the field having now converged to a concept similar to the one featuring on the last two Red Bull cars, Red Bull raised eyebrows at the launch of their RB20 by presenting🌟 a design that drew comparisons to Mercedes’ 🔯W14.

The areas most reminiscent of last year’s Mercedes 💖include vertical sidepod inlets and ▨a bulge running the length of the engine cover.

Reigning world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen said he 🍨would “still call it a Red Bull style” design when it was sugge𝄹sted to him that the RB20 featured some “Mercedes-style” ideas.

"I'm quite happy with the direction that they chose,” the Dutchman added. "I saw the dr💟awings I think i♚n Abu Dhabi, the last race, I was like, 'wow, that's quite different in a way.' And they've not been conservative, let's say like that.

"I think what I like about the team iꦿs that we had a great package, but they took the chance to really go all out, I would say and try to make it better. Of course, time will tell if it's rཧeally, really good.

"But from what I see within the team everyone is just happy with what they have achieved in the wi♌nter. But then again, we don't know. We can't control what the other people did."

Ask🌳ed about RB20’s similarities with recent Mercedes designs, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: "It's not tactical, it's based on 🥂performance and what we're seeing through our simulation tools.

"Obviously the car looks quiﷺte vi🥂sibly different in certain areas to last year. Only the stopwatch will tell but in the virtual world we wouldn't have committed it to design if we didn't feel it was better."