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Tech analysis: What’s new on the Red Bull RB16

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Tech analysis: What’s new on the Red Bull RB16

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Jake Boxall-Legge

Feb 12, 2020, 11:39 AM

Red Bull did its best not to give too many of its 2020 car's secrets away by releasing a single studio shot of the RB16. Even so, there's plenty to glean from that image about how it intends to become a proper F1 title contender once more

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In stark contrast to Tuesday's Ferrari launch, which was a particularly lively and bombastic affair, Red Bull unceremoniously dropped its 2020 Formula 1 car, the RB16, with no real fanfare at all.

The no-fuss nature of an online launch with a shakedown later in the day has become de rigueur in modern F1, and perhaps underlines Red Bull's willingness to partake in the formalities before getting on with the serious work at hand.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.