Red Bull found cause fuel leak on Verstappen's car
Apr.14 - Red Bull has identified the problem that ended world champion Max Verstappen's Australian GP.
The Dutchman is not only behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in the drivers' standings, he is only sixth overall after two failures out of three races so far.
"We were able to clarify the cause of the fuel leak in Max's car," Dr Helmut Marko told Speed Week.
However, he admitted he isn't sure the team will be able to implement a short-term fix before Imola.
"The matter is very complex," said the 78-year-old Austrian. "The problem is absolutely different from that of Bahrain."
Verstappen, 24, was outwardly angry and also downbeat after Melbourne, but Red Bull team boss Christian Horner insists the title race is far from over.
"The encouraging thing for us is that we basically have a fast car," he said.
"Max will fight back. Of course Max was frustrated after his retirement, but we've got a little more than ten percent of the season behind us, so there's still a long way to go."
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Although recyclings a good idea generally, id recommend they stop making the fuel tanks out of recycled red bull cans in future...
So, we’re big girls and boys dr spin fuel is leaking, where?
Those pesky little Gremlins. Lol
This sounds like a load of crap.
Frothing fuel. Duhhhh.
Get in with it. We've been forced to deal with crap Ethanol for 35 years now, and RB has how many hundreds of engineers?
What rubbish. Esp Marko...
spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar springs to mind, I told em to stop using German jubilee clips (which incidentally are made in china ) lol
"The matter is very complex...".
Lets think about this. Functional operating systems continuously monitor major systems autonomously and report back through telemetry. Any mission-critical system typically has a Built-In-Test (BIT) functionality that can trouble-shoot to the system / module level. In other words BIT will get you to which card failed. Test-benches will parse out to the sub-component level on the failed card. Engineering will already have a pretty clear idea on what caused a failure by the time the chassis rolls to a stop. Rarely is it a software-only glitch.
It would seem to me that Dr. Goebbels is sand-bagging. They'll be up-and-running for Imola. If they aren't, they need some new engineers.
All carefully stage managed. Ferrari’s year under the new media rules.loads a money for everyone.
Even though the season is long, further considerable points losses are unsustainable.
We need Maxes car running well so he can help Perez with his championship!
great shot lol
If you remember when ethanol first was used. And it ate the hoses on old cars and they burst?
They wouldn't be so daft as not to forsee that problem,, would they? not with 95bar fuel pressure going through it. Hell!
The problem that Swede mentions was solved, even in road cars, over 25 yrs ago. RB's problem is not corrosion, but could be related to your observation, system pressure. More likely it simply has to do with their mission to reduce weight. Ineffective lightweight fittings? They won't say and we will never know. Let's go with a Blo' conspiracy theory. More fun that way. :)
Who knows? They may have used the same fuel lines they always used.
The lines in my 2017 KTM 500 were junk. Had to replace them...
Swede, my friend, the crappy rubber fuel lines on your motorbike bear no resemblance to a F1 car fuel delivery system. Nice bike but it's not a $12m racing car.
Yeah but they wouldn't use the same hoses now would they, if they can't fix the problem now max is going to be on tenderhooks.
I reckon it just shook an injection pipe loose ,so easy to fix it's obviously a standard part used on the TRs aswell no big panic or its cracked an injection pipe either way a simple fix Imo. Now can we please have more sarcasm and piss-taking please..!!!
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