Innovation: opening of the Red Bull engine hood in the photo

Formula 1 is a story of innovation since forever. All the tricks are good to take and Red Bull arrived in Baku with an improved engine cover design not from an aerodynamic perspective, but from a purely technical standpoint.

The engine cover was previously large pieces of carbon in one piece, from the ventilation chimney above the driver to the exhausts. Red Bull has found a solution as can be seen here in our photograph:

The main drawback of a thermal engine is that it overheats. And high temperatures are not really compatible with reliability. To reduce this impact on the starting grid, while the engines are on to warm up and cannot really be cooled down, the team horizontally cut the engine hood to allow it to split in two.

Clever, isn’t it?