Red Bull junior team’s design approach ‘wrong’

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In the round-up: Peter Bayer, the new CEO of Red Bull’s junior team currently known as ‘RB’, admits their former development direction was a mistake.

In brief

“Little brother” team chose wrong development path

The team which competed as AlphaTauri last year began to move its car design closer to that of Red Bull towards the end of the season, when it enjoyed a clear upswing in performance. It intends to continue that trend next year, and Bayer is confident they are now on the right track.

“I think we have everything it takes to be successful in the sport,” he told Motorsport Magazin. “There are various themes, but I think the main reason why we are not higher in the rankings was the belief of some engineers that they can do things better than Red Bull Racing with [designers] Pierre Wache and Adrian Newey.

“Back then they managed to assert themselves. But if you look at the situation today, every team is replicating Red Bull. We are the little brother and we believed we could go our own way. That was wrong and that’s why we are where we are today.”

Carlin becomes Rodin

Junior single-seater team Carlin, former home to many Formula 1 stars including seven drivers in this year’s field, will rebrand as Rodin this year following its takeover by the sports brand owned by David Dicker. “The move boosts the team’s performance ambitions on track and further strengthens the company’s business foundations,” it said in a statement.

Rodin will compete in Formula 2, Formula 3, GB3, British F4, Spanish F4 and F1 Academy this year.

Zagazeta gets Jenzer F3 seat

Jenzer Motorsport has announced Peruvian racer Matias Zagazeta will contest the FIA Formula 3 series for them this year. He finished runner-up in British F4 three years ago and has competed in Formula Regional Europe since then.

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Noda joins Super Formula

Juju Noda will leap up to Japan’s top single seater series, Super Formula, with TGM Grand Prix this year. She will be the fourth woman to race in the series and the first from Japan.

The 17-year-old daughter of three-time F1 race starter Hideki Noda raced F3 cars in Euroformula Open last year, where she won once before leaving the series mid-season. She also sampled more powerful machinery in Boss GP and won the Italian F2000 Formula Trophy series.

Schreiner gets Sauber backing for F1 Academy return

Carrie Schreiner will spend a second season in F1 Academy after being picked to join the Sauber Academy. The one-time Formula E test driver returned to single-seaters last year after spending the previous six seasons in sports cars. Schreiner placed 11th in F1 Academy last year, taking a single victory in a partial-reverse-grid race at Zandvoort.

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