Verstappen knows Red Bull has new floor in pipeline: "Copies don't matter much"

Max Verstappen is not worried about the photos taken of the floor of Red Bull Racing's car. The driver of the Austrian racing team knows that the copies may not work on the other bolides and, at the same time, a new floor is in the pipeline for Red Bull. Even though just copying often makes no sense, Red Bull does admit that it has secretly looked to other teams to make its car faster.

Verstappen knows that Red Bull's floor was not on display for the first time at the Monaco Grand Prix. "Of course, that's not top-notch, but on the other hand, of course, other teams are not stupid. They are copying anyway," the Red Bull driver is quoted by Motorsport.com. Verstappen is absolutely not worried about competitors' possible copying. 'We will also have a new floor ourselves within a few races. That one will be different again, so very little will matter."

"Even if they were to completely copy everything from our floor, it doesn't fit the philosophy of their own car. You have to adjust a lot of things around that," continued the reigning world champion. One, therefore, praises the total package that Red Bull puts on the asphalt. Verstappen, therefore, knows that the Austrian racing stable cannot simply put a component from another team on its own car. "The same applies to us, by the way. We can't just put someone else's sidepod on it either, because that's just not how our car works."

Red Bull: "Delivers a small advantage now"

Red Bull itself has also looked to the other teams for possible innovations. For example, the team copied a part of Williams. "After all, just because you have the fastest car doesn't mean the car is the best in all parts. If you look at the back of the floor, this solution actually dates back to early 2022. Williams had something like this on the car relatively early on. Now we do think it could have a small advantage," said Paul Monaghan, chief engineer at Red Bull.