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F1 2026 mid-season grades: Red Bull stumbles but summer rally shows glimmer of progress

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Red Bull made an admirable start to life as a bona fide power unit manufacturer, but on the chassis side the team has been lagging behind its top rivals since day one. A late push towards the summer is salvaging a C- grade rather than a less satisfactory score.The badRed Bull started 2026 as F1's fourth-fastest team in Melbourne. Initially, a lot of that deficit was attributed to the ...Keep reading
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After having dominated Formula 1 with an almost unprecedented efficiency during the era of the ground effect, however yielding under the assaults of McLaren in 2024 and 2025, Red Bull approached the 2026 season in a very different situation. The difficulties of the RB22, the successive departures of several major figures and the changes in governance gradually weakened the stable, to the point of raising a more worrying question than that of the…

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