Red Bull overweight, the ‘diet’ should start in Miami

Too much weight The start of 2026 has been anything but simple for the Red Bull team. The Milton Keyens stable has begun the new regulatory era of the Circus also having to deal with its own new power unit, built in-house and for which it is inevitably paying the price of the novitiate. Another big problem that emerged in these first races however, as it had been in 2022, is that of weight. In fact, everyone in the paddock confirms that Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar’s car is significantly ‘overweight’. After the Chinese GP it was assumed that the kilos in excess of the limit imposed by the regulation were as much as 20. In reality, a recent analysis conducted by the RacingNews365 website estimated the excess weight of the Austro-English single-seater at around 9-10 kg. Everyone on a diet from Miami The team led by Laurent Mekies has therefore started working hard to be able to put the RB22 on a ‘diet’. In theory, the updates that should have resolved at least in part these problems were scheduled for the weekend of the Bahrain GP, ​​which however, as is known, has been removed from the calendar as well as – at least for now – that of Saudi Arabia. The introduction of the innovations which aim, among other things, to make the single-seater lighter will therefore be postponed to the beginning of May, during the weekend of the Miami GP. This package should be worth at least a couple of tenths in lap time, the ones that Verstappen and Hadjar are currently leaving on the field precisely because of the extra kilos that their car carries with them.