Red Bull’s RB18 will ‘lose some weight’ before Imola

Helmut Marko has promised Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez a faster, lighter RB18 come round four of the championship, the Emilia Romagna GP.

With brand new technical regulations in play this season, the teams were given an extra 43 kilograms to play with  Formula 1 increasing the minimum weight of the cars.

However, none of the teams except Alfa Romeo were able to get down to that with some said to be double digits overweight, Red Bull falling into that category.

Despite the car’s weight issues, the RB18 has been one of the top two cars on this year’s grid.

Verstappen challenged Charles Leclerc for the race win at the Bahrain Grand Prix, the Dutchman’s race eventually undone by a fuel pressure problem, while in Saudi Arabia he won the battle.

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The reigning World Champion took the victory by half a second ahead of the Ferrari driver.

Marko has promised his drivers a lighter, and potentially faster, car come Imola.

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“The Ferrari is a car that is always fast, in all conditions [regardless of] temperature or tyres,” the Red Bull motorsport advisor told Austria’s Servus TV.

“Our car is definitely more difficult to