Verstappen has two wins from the last three races, and Red Bull's late-season surge confirms something more important than salvaging third in the standings: every upgrade introduced since the disastrous China-Japan stretch has worked. That's the real dividend heading into 2027, especially when rivals are still second-guessing their development paths.
The hidden edge? Red Bull's new wind tunnel comes online early next year, possibly February. The current facility is 70 years old—Christian Horner famously called it a "Cold War relic"—and correlation issues have haunted the team before. The new tunnel won't shape the RB23's initial design, already underway, but it will drive in-season development through a championship fight that promises to be as tight as this year's was wide open. Verstappen dismissed the importance of finishing runner-up ("you're not winning"), but the engineering foundation Red Bull is building could change that calculus by mid-2027.
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