{"id":15361,"date":"2023-12-18T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/15361\/red-bull-aiming-to-replace\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:43:49","slug":"red-bull-aiming-to-replace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=15361","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull aiming to replace &#8216;Cold War relic&#8217; wind tunnel by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull aiming to replace &#8216;Cold War relic&#8217; wind tunnel by 2026\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Laurence Edmondson, F1 editor<span class=\"timestamp \">December 18, 2023, 3:55 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Construction of a new Red Bull wind tunnel will begin next year, team principal Christian Horner has confirmed, with the team hoping to have it operational by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The new wind tunnel is set to be built at the team&#39;s factory in Milton Keynes and will replace the facility it currently uses near Bedford, which is more than 70 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Unlapped: How to listen or watch the new ESPN F1 show, episode archives, and more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asked about progress on the new wind tunnel at a recent Christmas lunch with the media, team principal Horner said: \u201cWind tunnels being a thing of the future [in Formula One] Clearly, we had to move with the times and invest in a new wind tunnel.  Work will begin in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new facility is expected to be completed by 2026, but Horner doubts it will have an impact on the team&#39;s competitiveness until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to introduce it mid-season, you have to designate a tunnel for the year, so it will probably be to do car 27.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Christian Horner confirmed that construction of the new wind tunnel will begin in 2024. <cite>Getty<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The origins of the team&#39;s current facility date back to 1947, when the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> Kingdom&#39;s fledgling National Aeronautical establishment built a facility with four wind tunnels designed to test military and civilian aircraft in a range of speeds from 80 mph to Mach 5.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Red-Bull-aiming-to-replace-Cold-War-relic-wind-tunnel.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The tunnel that eventually became owned by Red Bull was originally designed to test aircraft at low speeds, including during takeoff and landing, and was used for the development of Concorde in the 1960s, among many other military projects.  The Jaguar F1 team acquired a 123-year lease on the building in 2003 when the tunnel&#39;s previous occupants, Arrows, closed in 2002, meaning the facility was part of the deal when Red Bull bought Jaguar before its F1 debut in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#39;s use of the wind tunnel has been restricted by the FIA \u200b\u200bover the past year, partly due to F1&#39;s Aerodynamic Testing Regulations. [ATR]which limit testing capacity the higher a team is ranked in the constructors&#39; championship, and partly due to Red Bull&#39;s penalty for exceeding F1&#39;s cost cap in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty restriction expired in October this year, but Horner says the nature of the aging facility near Bedford, which was once considered one of the best wind tunnels in the world due to its concrete construction, presents a certain number of original limitations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur allowance went up a little bit in October because we had served our time, which saved us seven percent of time,\u201d he said.  &#8220;But again, that&#39;s eight percent less than any other competitor [due to the ATR].  This is exactly how these regulations work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And particularly with the wind tunnel that we have, which is a relic of the Cold War and not particularly effective, particularly in cold weather, which we tend to have in the UK, we have to be very, very selective. And that&#39;s where the team has succeeded brilliantly in being really selective about the areas in which we channel our development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull aiming to replace &#8216;Cold War relic&#8217; wind tunnel by 2026\u060c Laurence Edmondson, F1 editorDecember 18, 2023, 3:55 p.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011 Construction of a new Red Bull wind tunnel will begin next year, team principal Christian Horner has confirmed, with the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5191,2900,7861,2018,7862,1040,7863,299,5074],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-aiming","tag-bull","tag-cold","tag-red","tag-relic","tag-replace","tag-tunnel","tag-war","tag-wind"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15363,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions\/15363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}