No rush to copy reactive ride system says Red Bull

[John S]

Yeah but you can bet they've put plenty of men on it - just in case.               

Red Bull Racing insists that there is no rush for it to copy the reactive ride system pioneered by Lotus - even though some rival outfits are pushing on with developing their own concepts.

Lotus raised some eyebrows in the Abu Dhabi young driver test last year when it ran a system that maintains its ride height under braking - which aids aerodynamic performance and stability into corners.

AUTOSPORT revealed earlier this month that the FIA had declared the system legal as long ago as last January – and that Ferrari was awaiting the green light from the governing body to be able to race its own version this year.

Although some have touted the reactive ride system – which is legal because it is activated by brake torque – as perhaps the major technical innovation of the year, Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner is less convinced.

"It's like all of these things, it's about how they work and how they are integrated in the car," Horner said in an exclusive interview with AUTOSPORT.

"Things have to work as a package rather than as individual components. It appears to be an interesting concept but I'm the wrong person to be commenting on it."

By Jonathan Noble and Charles Bradley, Autosport.com, Today.

[Scott]

I already posted it somewhere, but I think RBR will develop a system, but watch from the sidelines for the first couple of races to see how things turn out for the other teams who use it - whether it is how the FIA react to it, and how it affects race distances.  If it's positive, then they will have something ready to throw on the car by then.

[lkjohnson1950]

Who needs reactive ride height control when you have active wings?