How Red Bull Ended Up With An Unbeatable Monster 

The W11 was a lot like the F-15 Eagle, it was built to conquer an almighty competitor, that turned out to be something way worse than predicted

Checo proved that it wasn't just the RB19.

RB-19 and Max have etched their names in the annals of racing history.

The RB19 makes those fictional super-teams you see in media like Ravenwest from the GRID games look entirely believable; unless

THANK YOU for praising Honda so much at the beginning of the video. In a way they are really not discussed much at all in regards to good performance compared to how Mercedes was praised for years on end. Not once have I heard anyone talk positively about the Honda engine during the broadcasts (it's always "OP DRS" and despite the engine, not because of), and even in the official F1 games the Honda engine is the 2nd or 3rd best after Mercedes (at least last time I checked), which just doesn't make any sense at this point. They are the biggest reason Red Bull are winning - without them Adrian Newey would have not been compelled enough to give it his all once more.

Major factor in the transformation to unbeatable monster: the human fly by wire system called "Max Verstappen". It may be that the RB19 was more "stable" in the sense of aerodynamic efficiency through the antidive and antisquat geometry, in another way the secret of the speed of the RB19 is actually its UNstability. To see this we can look at fighter jets like F16. These are intentionally built slightly unstable. This feature, which is called relaxed static stability (RSS), gives the plane both reduced air resistance and better manouvrability. To still make the F16 controllable by a human pilot is not controlled directly by the pilot but via a fly by wire system that inputs the commands of the pilot to a computer, which performs continual small corrections to compensate for the unstability of the platform. More or less the same thing goes for racingcars where a car with lots of front end grip ("pointy") and relatively "loose" rear end, which is easy to "rotate", are know to be the fastest design. The problem with such unstable "nervous" designs is, however, that they are hard to control. But in F1 such computer controlled fly by wire is of course not allowed. Which means that it is the skill of the driver that determines how pointy, nervous and unstable (and thus fast) the car can be made. It is here that Verstappen really shines, because there is no other driver who can handle a car as nervous and pointy as Verstappen can. As Alex Albon (who also like a pointy nervous car...) told in another video: "Verstappen is on another level, when you try to drive a car that is set up for Verstappen, it is like you try to play a computergame with the sensitivity of the mouse turned up to the max...". It is also this inbuilt pointyness and nervousness of the Red Bulls that causes so many problems for Verstappens teammates like Perez, Kvyat and Albon, because they can't handle this, and start making mistakes, or actually become slower, because they can not drive their natural style in the RB. Also many have compared Verstappen to Michael Schumacher who is another driver who liked and could handle a very nervously setup car, and got his speed from that. So there you have it: this inbuilt nervousness and the the fact that Verstappen has the talent to drive a car with a faster but more hard to handle setup than all of the other drivers in the current circuit is one very important factor in the RB19 being so bloody fast.

Let's not forget that Max Verstappen has evolved really wide-apart eyes to see around the halo. (Or, more importantly, he is capable of handling extremely twitchy cars, which are incredibly fast if you can keep them on the road and out of the barriers.)

Every single saturday is a wee bit misleading - the RB19's qualifying pace in SPA and Suzuka is superb.

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"How Red Bull Ended Up With An Unbeatable Monster" Everything you said AND they put a guy called Max in it. He was the differentiating factor. Combine that with a team who where almost flawless in their strategies and execution on the race weekend and there you have it. The RB19 was a fenomenal car but in my opinion it really was the perfomance that Max showed that took it to the levels of domenation we saw.

The RB19 was only so dominant in 1 man's hands.

The engineering and maths in these machines are just insane. Crazy what humans can achieve when they work together

Dude this has been the best detailed deep dive into the RB19 I’ve ever seen. I’ll be watching more of your videos in the future.

One remark the W11 was a dominant car with a good driver. The RB19 is a good car with a dominant driver as Pérez is showing.

EXCELLENT video, EXCELLENT work all the way around. 👍👍🏁

This is the best video you’ve ever done. you’re awesome, bro!

Very high quality video, thank you.

Very insightful presentation - One of the best in story telling from start to finish - You definitely planned this out extremely well - Thank you for posting

Simply beautiful video. Bravo!

Very enjoyable ! Love to see more from you