Red Bull showcases RB21 for 2025 F1 season

Purple Bull has taken the covers off the automobile Max Verstappen goals to overcome his fifth straight Components 1 drivers’ title with, the RB21.

Forward of F1’s three-day winter take a look at in Bahrain which kicks off on Wednesday, Purple Bull was the final group to unveil its up to date automobile design for the upcoming season, the ultimate one underneath the present ground-effect based mostly rules cycle that will probably be pushed by Verstappen and his new team-mate Liam Lawson.

Sporting a really comparable livery to final yr’s automobile, which had already been revealed ultimately week’s F1 75 launch in London, the RB21 is an evolution of the RB20 and has undergone a wide range of adjustments to deal with the automobile stability points that plagued its predecessor, though the low-light studio photographs launched by the group nonetheless rigorously stored most of its secrets and techniques hidden from view.

Verstappen and Purple Bull began the 2024 season in dominant kind, however as McLaren caught up after which overtook the Milton Keynes-based group, Verstappen and particularly team-mate Sergio Perez began to wrestle way more with stability issues on the RB20. It took till September’s Italian Grand Prix for Purple Bull to achieve a deeper understanding of the place it had gone flawed, however by that point it was too late to keep away from slipping to 3rd behind McLaren and Ferrari.

Purple Bull Racing RB21

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Based on technical director Pierre Wache, Purple Bull has been arduous at work to make its new automobile simpler to stability and arrange, however with out compromising the automobile’s peak efficiency potential.

“The primary factor that you’re attempting to realize is a stability between making a automobile that’s faster than the others and making it good to drive in order that drivers can extract probably the most from it,” Wache advised Motorsport.com. “You understand that when you enhance the [operating] window you additionally cut back the general potential.

“In 2023 we have been proved that our route was right as a result of we have been faster than the others. Final season we have been proved that we weren’t right. Each time there’s a restrict when the stability takes the profit in comparison with the general potential of the automobile. We have now to repair it for this yr.”

Components 1’s pre-season formally will get underneath means on Wednesday at 7am GMT, when testing begins in Bahrain.

Images of the Purple Bull Racing RB21