Red Bull presents new liveries for both its F1 teams as Ford returns to the grid · RaceFans

Januar 16, 2026

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The brilliant blue colouring of Ford will function extra prominently on the automobiles of each of Pink Bull’s Formulation 1 groups in 2026.

Pink Bull and Racing Bulls revealed their newest color schemes in an occasion in Detroit, the house of the ‘blue oval’, one of many world’s largest automotive producers.

Ford left F1 when it offered its Jaguar group to Pink Bull on the finish of 2004. Now it’s returning as a contributor to Pink Bull’s new energy unit programme. The items will energy each groups’ automobiles this yr.

Neither group is predicted to disclose their new 2026 automobiles publicly earlier than the primary pre-season take a look at later this month on the Circuit de Catalunya, which can happen behind closed doorways.

Pink Bull has taken the chance to revive the “gloss look” color scheme it used when it entered F1 21 years in the past. In addition to that includes the “well-known Ford blue”, the group drew inspiration for its newest look from its unique livery.

Crew principal Laurent Mekies, who’s main Pink Bull into a brand new season for the primary time, mentioned “the group have accomplished an unimaginable job to be right here in the present day and to be within the place to go to [the] Barcelona shakedown [test] with our personal automotive and our personal energy unit for the primary time ever.

“That is the results of the efforts of two,000 folks on the Pink Bull Expertise Campus, probably the most proficient group that you could find they usually have been working collectively to get us to this second. It’s the starting of an especially thrilling journey for all of us and we’ll take to the monitor as one – one Pink Bull chassis and energy unit.”

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Each Pink Bull’s automobiles will function new racing numbers this yr. Max Verstappen can not use the quantity one of many reigning world champion however has not returned to the quantity 33 he used beforehand. He’ll drive with quantity three, having change into the primary driver to vary his profession quantity since they had been launched by the FIA in 2014. He additionally has a brand new group mate, Isack Hadjar, who will drive automotive quantity six.

The group introduced its livery by a dramatic stunt during which an aeroplane pulled a canopy from a automotive. The footage, that includes Czech pilot Martin Sonka, was filmed in Czechia.

Pink Bull additionally revealed the primary energy unit it has developed might be named DM01, in honour of founder Dietrich Mateschitz, who died in 2022. Ben Hodgkinson, the engine programme’s technical director, mentioned: “To get to this second the place we are able to lastly launch the first-ever Pink Bull Ford Powertrain means lots to myself, and the a number of hundred those that have poured their ardour into this mission with hours and hours of arduous graft.”

Racing Bulls, Pink Bull’s junior F1 group, may also incorporate Ford’s blue colors however retain the predominantly white color scheme it launched final yr.