A lot of attention has gone to Ferrari and the cursed Barcelona floor upgrade that sent it back to the drawing board over the summer, but behind the Scuderia in F1's midfield RB suffered a similar fate.
After an encouraging start RB also introduced a new floor at June's Spanish Grand Prix, an upgrade which actually turned out to make the car slower. The team paid the price against increasingly competitive competition from Haas and belatedly Alpine as it slipped behind both to eighth, equalling its result from 2023.
