RB gets 2025 design ideas with new Abu Dhabi front wing

RB has offered a glimpse of the 2025 design ideas it brought to the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a new front wing.

The team is still embroiled in the struggle for sixth place Constructors’ Championship And Yas has managed to get his final development of the season on the car for the finale at the Marina Circuit.

The squad hopes the new design, which requires new nose structure crash tests to be completed, will deliver a boost in performance but more critically provide better balance through corners.

The wing features new mainplane elements, flaps and endplates, which are intended to modify the load distribution to promote better flow quality over the rest of the car.

RB Racing Director Alan Parmane said the team would evaluate the wing throughout practice and decide whether to commit to it for the remainder of the race weekend.

“It’s on both cars and we have two of them,” he said. “We’re happy with it, and we can race it here. It’s legal, it’s passed crash tests, everything and its only goal is to go fast. There is no special trick about it.

“It’s more loaded, and we think a little more user-friendly. “There have been some developments to make it more walkable.”

While rival teams have placed considerable emphasis on flexi-wing designs this year to improve car balance, Parmane said the wing was not aimed in this area.

“This is not an aero-elasticity update,” he said. “It’s a whole equilibrium characteristic change.”

While the idea behind the wing change was originally planned for the team’s 2025 Challenger, Parmane said the concept could be introduced now.

“This is something we are working on for 2025,” he explained. “I wouldn’t say we pushed it forward, but it’s just a coincidence that happens here. “Although it can definitely be moved to next year.”

The only other technical update brought to Abu Dhabi is Sauber Which introduced a revised floor and new rear brake duct deflectors.

The increased volume on the rear floor body aims to improve flow characteristics by reducing losses in critical ride height situations, while changes to the location of the rear brake duct lower deflector aim to improve and enhance rear tire jet vortex control. Overall efficiency of the diffuser.

Photos from Abu Dhabi GP Practice