F1 wind tunnel punishment helped ‘focus minds’

The Milton Keynes-based outfit has emerged from the winter as the team to beat, with its 2023 F1 challenger proving to be a step clear of its main opposition in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. 

Its impressive progress comes despite Red Bull having been handed an extra 10% reduction in its allocated wind tunnel and CFD time as the result of over-spending on its way to the 2021 world championship. 

While the team had claimed that the sanction would be a…