The race is on and Red Bull has already taken the first victory of the season by becoming the first team to run its 2020 car.

Max Verstappen took to the track for a filming day at Silverstone, so as well as the usual photos of the launch car, we have also seen it on track.

I'm your host, Edstraw, and joining me on this edition of the Race F1 Podcast Extra

is Glenn Freeman, with Gary Anderson joining us later for his technical analysis

and then a brief cameo appearance from Scott Mitchell.

Glenn, now first up, have you finished grumbling about the unchanged Red Bull livery?

Yeah, I think I've retreated back into my hole because the internet shot me down largely for that.

I'm always disappointed when Red Bull or any other team come out with the same livery that they always have.

And yeah, I was a bit critical

of Red Bull this morning for that. And lots of people coming out in support of Red Bull. So it's good

to know that the fans like that livery. And yeah, I've been put firmly in my place.

I think iconic livery has only become iconic with retrospect. Like the Mulberry McLaren's, you know, we got used to them and they were always just the same for quite a few years. But now, looking back, they're great. But at the time, no one was jumping for joy every time another red and white car was unveiled. Same with the Red Bull. Yeah, I completely agree. And the thing is, I think I put more pressure on Red Bull to do something more interesting with their liveries because it's such an interesting brand that normally does buck the trends of its rivals in whatever

kind of area it goes into. So it just surprises me that they're so corporate in F1. I guess people

like the consistent lineage. You can look back to the first car they had in 2005 and still see the

livery similarities, whereas I like the days where teams were probably forced by sponsors,

because they had more sponsors, to constantly change their colours and things look different,

and you just got more surprises. We just have to look quite a bit harder now, I think,

to spot the differences when we see a new car, don't we? Yeah, very, very much. Although I do quite like it when they changed, or I say a few years ago, some years ago now to that kind of matte paint car. I think that looks, that finish looks nicer. But anyway, we're not here to talk about the livery fun as that is. But this is the third car to to break cover. We've seen nothing kind of earth shattering. Nobody's reinvented the wheel, which is sensible because wheels are that shape for a reason. But we knew this season was always going to be about detail work, evolution. We've got the sample set of three cars. This sort of confirms it, doesn't it? They're working within those well-established concepts,

but they're still room for innovation, isn't there? Yeah, that's what I think is interesting. I mean, a lot of people probably struggled to look past the livery being the same on the Red Bull and assumed that the rest of the car looks the same as well. But when you actually see the car from the front, there's a significant change in the way they've narrowed the nose and what they've done with the vent at the front of the nose.

They've had that for a while in that thumb tip area. But you can probably explain this better than me, Ed. But I think the vent has been moved up, so it's not in the middle of the tip anymore. It's kind of going in the top. And they've also changed what they're doing with the mounting pylons,

for one of a better phrase, for the front wing as well. So there's quite a lot of detail change, actually, I think, at the front of the Red Bull. Yeah, very much so. And I'll ask Gary Anderson about that shortly, but the way you've characterised it's basically, right, it's a very neat piece of packaging. we have to remember anything they do in the nose, that has to pass a crash test.

So that's really, really difficult because you can't, don't just have to make it. You have to make it strong enough. And those are very stringent. That's always a complicated task. And we have seen, you know, there's detail changes all over the car. And we know Red Bull needs to start well they've said they need to

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