Red Bull’s early-season technical crisis is plumbing new depths, with news the reigning world champions are calling upon junior team Toro Rosso for help.
Italy’s authoritative Autosprint reports that Red Bull has asked the Faenza based sister team for assistance on the all-new ‘brake by wire’ technology, which is tied in with the highly-sophisticated ‘ERS’ systems.
“The fact that Red Bull wants to use someone else’s (system) says a lot about the size of Red Bull’s other problems,” said veteran correspondent Alberto Antonini.
One of those bigger problems is with extreme “turbo lag”, Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko admits.