Secretive photographs have offered a clue into Red Bull’s problem in Thursday’s F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson’s RB21 caused a commotion when it returned to the garage but the exact issue was 🅘unclea𝓀r.

However, F1 tech expert Sam Collinsﷺ ♏thinks he has uncovered the truth.

“I have been spending a lot of time staring at a lot of phoꦍtos of the Red Bull,” he said on Sky Sports.

“At the end of [Wednesday] I felt like they꧋ didn’t understand the car. If someone came to me and said ‘that’s the car they raced at the end of 🔜last year’, I would struggle to disagree.

“How🍃ever, I have heard on the grapevine that the issue Red Bull faced earlier on was a water pressure issue."

Photos offer clue about Red Bull RB21

“I have seeꦜn some photos," Coll🐼ins continued. "Unfortunately I can’t share them with you.

“But the photos I’ve ♑seen make it clear what’s different about this year’s Red Bull.

“While it looks really similar, on the sk🉐in, Christian Horner says it’s 99% new and every surface is different.

“That’s absolutely right - the more you ✅look at the photos, the more you see the little differences on the car.

“Every shape is slightly different.

“A producer yesterday pointed out the angle of the front wing endplates is slightly more inward-fa🅰cing, they point toward the nose more than they did in Abu Dhabi last year.

“Th🍸e concept is the same - the pull rod front suspension, the push rod rear.

“That’s a concept that is moving towards being universal for this generation of cars. Unless you speak Italian and you live in Maranello whe🍌re they chose to do something different.

“Even Mercedes would have evolved towards that concept if these rules stayed in 𝕴pla𝓀ce longer.

“Everybody copied Red Bull’s sidepod concept. You 🐷can see the protruding upper edge, the vertical cooling slꦇot, the horizontal cooling slot. That’s a pure Red Bull design.

“But where the big differences are with the 🍌Red Bull are underneath the bodywork.

“The water pressure is, I think, relates to the fact that they are running a completely new cooling system on t🐎he car.

“They have 𒉰moved the radiators and heat exchanges around🌠.

“On the sidepods is a distinctive horizontal V-shape which I first saw o🔯n Ferrari-powered cars in 2🐓016.

“That concept has carried through to t💙his Red Bull after man♚y years of not really being present in Formula 1.

“So the water pressure issue, with a new cooling systemไ, probably suggests something might not be designedඣ right, or maybe a bit of pipework is chafing, or it’s not as well manufactured as it should be.

“Or could it be the age-old problem of finger trouble, where somebody hasn’t bolted something on as ti🅺ghtly as they 🎐should have.

“That’s why you go testing - to𒀰 find these problems.

“But the ca𒁏r concept itself looks simi𝄹lar to last year.

“The aerodynamic brain power of Red Bull would have been d🐭eꦑdicated to this car until January 2. They were not allowed to work on the 2026 car until that date.

“After that date? I don’t know how much goes into next year’s Red Bull, and how much goes into this year’s🐲 Red Bull and its cooling system.”

At first glance, the RB21 which broke cജover in 2025 did not appear to look significantly different to its predecessor.

But Red Bull boss Horner has pointed out that last year’s caಌr won more races than anybody despite the team conceding the constructors’ championship to McLaren.

Now w♐ith Lawson racing instead of Sergio Perez, Red Bull hope their new driver can make a difference.

Max V🔥erstappen was unable to offer much feedback (he did not drive in testing until🌞 Thursday) but his desire will be for a car which is less unpredictable than last year’s RB20.

Verstappen is gunning for a fifth drivers’ 🃏title in a row.