Red Bull plans to continue experiments with a hybrid version of its old floor at Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix.

experiments with a hybrid version of its old floor at Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix.

As the world champion squad seeks to answer why its RB20 has lost competitiveness compared to closest rivals and , it has been evaluating whether the upgraded floor it introduced at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in May was the trigger for its problems.

In a bid to get to the bottom of matters, it fitted s car with an alternative floor version at last weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix.

This was based on the pre-Imola design that had won four of the first five races of the season.

However, it also incorporated elements of design improvements that have been introduced since then, which the team knows definitely work.

The mish-mash of old and new elements has led to this version being informally described by one insider as a ‘Franken-floor’ – in reference to Frankenstein’s monster that was made up from different body parts.

Verstappen raced with this design at the Dutch Grand Prix, but mixed weather conditions throughout the weekend meant it difficult to get a proper gauge on how it performed relative to the newer version that was run by

Red Bull plans again to split the configurations at Monza in a bid to get a better understanding of whether the new floor is the real cause of the RB20’s balance issues.