The first race of the delayed 2020 season was a disappointment for Red Bull's RB16, which looked set to promise so much based off its predecessor last year and the Barcelona pre-season tests in February, where it frequently bothered Mercedes. The RB16 in Austria was by no means slow and looks firmly cemented as the second quickest car, but it remains behind the Mercedes W11 by around half a second, and that's on one of the shortest tracks on the calendar with a laptime of just over a minute. Analysing the car from a technical viewpoint it almost seems immature and also fragile in terms of reliability – but this is nothing new. We know that Adrian Newey's cars have always been subject to...
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