The Crimson Bull RB8 which carried Sebastian Vettel to his third world championship title has reappeared since then in lots of Crimson Bull’s totally different liveries.
Nonetheless for its newest showrun in Houston, Texas final week the group took the weird step of repainting it within the colors of its second group: RB.
Groups repeatedly run previous vehicles in present liveries to mirror their present sponsors. However for apparent causes this can be very uncommon for a group to color its automobile within the colors of a rival. Nonetheless Crimson Bull’s relationship to RB is in contrast to some other on the grid.
Uniquely, the Crimson Bull drinks firm owns two Method 1 groups. RB is the third identification it has given its second group.
RB initially competed as Toro Rosso between 2006 and 2019, then grew to become AlphaTauri, then was rebranded once more this season. Whereas Crimson Bull received the constructors’ championship and Vettel clinched the drivers’ title in 2012, Toro Rosso ended the season ninth out of 12 groups with its STR7.
Crimson Bull Junior Crew member Arvid Lindblad, who completed fourth in Method 3 this 12 months, had his first run in an F1 automobile on the Houston occasion. Former Crimson Bull driver David Coulthard additionally appeared within the automobile’s successor, the 2013 championship-winning RB9, painted within the group’s present livery.
Crimson Bull’s newest rebranding of its second group was partly completed in order that it may gain advantage from sponsorship offers struck by the world champions. Money App, certainly one of RB’s title sponsors, beforehand appeared on Crimson Bull’s vehicles, the place it had a a lot smaller presence.
RB’s principal sponsors are particularly focusing on the US market the place F1’s proprietor Liberty Media is in search of to develop, having elevated the variety of races there to 3. The group launched its newest automobile in Las Vegas and ran a particular livery for the primary of this 12 months’s US rounds, the Miami Grand Prix in Could.
A few of Crimson Bull’s rivals have raised issues over the potential benefits they could achieve by proudly owning a number of groups.
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