Oracle Pink Bull Racing has taken the wraps off its 2024 Method 1 racer, the RB20. Because the identify implies, it marks the crew’s twentieth 12 months in F1, a major achievement in a dreadfully costly sport the place groups come and go on the whims of sponsor winds.
The RB20 was revealed on the Pink Bull Know-how Campus in Milton Keynes, U.Ok. Not surprisingly, the automobile has not modified a lot from final 12 months’s championship RB19, itself an evolution of the RB18. Even the livery stays the identical.
The RB19 received 21 of the 22 Grand Prix races within the 2023 season. Driver Max Verstappen had sealed his third world championship by spherical 17 in Qatar,. On the finish of the season, he and teammate Sergio Perez got here in first and second within the 2023 factors standings. The untouchable duo tallied 451 extra factors than the next-closest challenger, Mercedes.
Within the course of, the Honda 1.6-liter V6-powered RB19 turned probably the most dominant automobile in F1 historical past. It broke the document set in 1988 by the additionally Honda-powered McLaren MP4/4, which received 15 of the 16 races that season. The RB20 continues to make use of Honda engines, as a result of why mess with success?
Twenty years is an eon in F1 phrases. Pink Bull Racing made its debut on the 2005 Austrian Grand Prix with the RB1. Present driver and three-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen was solely eight years previous on the time. On the time many, together with former Pink Bull driver David Coulthard and 13-time Grand Prix winner, thought the crew was merely a branding train to promote an power drink. Nonetheless, Coulthard was satisfied to come back on board to a crew that consisted of some hundred folks. In the present day, the outfit employs 1,500.
Within the intervening twenty years, the crew injected some much-needed enjoyable into the game. Coulthard’s leap right into a Monaco swimming pool carrying nothing however a Superman cape to rejoice his first podium with Pink Bull was an indicator of issues to come back.
Now that the RB20 has been revealed, all 10 automobiles for the 2024 season are identified. Drivers, begin your engines.