Helmut Marko reveals obstacles needed to be overcome by Red Bull in 2022 car development

Red Bull’s Helmut Marko has said that the team has had to overcome a few big obstacles during the development phase of their 2022 car for the upcoming Formula 1 season.

The Milton Keynes-based outfit unveiled their new challenger, the RB18, earlier this month and will be hoping it is going to be quick enough to help Max Verstappen defend his title and challenge once more for the Constructors’ crown.

With the rules and regulations changing drastically in terms of car design for this season, though, there is a real sense of the unknown and though you would expect Red Bull to be up at the front, there are no guarantees the established running order will remain the same.

And, in speaking to Kleine Zeitung in Austria, Marko has revealed that Red Bull have faced some big challenges on the way to delivering the RB18, though he did not disclose the exact nature of them:

“We were facing two or three big hurdles.

“It was the biggest regulatory change in the last fifteen or twenty years. All the new designs and planning also had to be done within the budget cap.”

Of course, every team must have faced big challenges this year with the regulations so drastically overhauled and that is what makes this season coming so exciting.

No-one really knows who has aced things and who hasn’t, and over the course of the campaign we’re set for plenty of development as the teams work out what works and what doesn’t on their cars.