Crimson Bull showcases RB21 for 2025 F1 season

Crimson Bull has taken the covers off the automotive Max Verstappen goals to overcome his fifth straight Formulation 1 drivers’ title with, the RB21.

Forward of F1’s three-day winter take a look at in Bahrain which kicks off on Wednesday, Crimson Bull was the final crew to unveil its up to date automotive design for the upcoming season, the ultimate one beneath 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 related livery to final 12 months’s automotive, which had already been revealed eventually week’s F1 75 launch in London, the RB21 is an evolution of the RB20 and has undergone a wide range of adjustments to handle the automotive steadiness points that plagued its predecessor, though the low-light studio photos launched by the crew nonetheless fastidiously saved most of its secrets and techniques hidden from view.

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

Crimson Bull Racing RB21

Photograph by: Crimson Bull Content material Pool

In response to technical director Pierre Wache, Crimson Bull has been laborious at work to make its new automotive simpler to steadiness and arrange, however with out compromising the automotive’s peak efficiency potential.

“The principle factor that you’re making an attempt to attain is a steadiness between making a automotive that’s faster than the others and making it good to drive in order that drivers can extract essentially the most from it,” Wache instructed Motorsport.com. “You recognize that in the event you improve the [operating] window you additionally cut back the general potential.

“In 2023 we have been proved that our course was appropriate as a result of we have been faster than the others. Final season we have been proved that we weren’t appropriate. Each time there’s a restrict when the steadiness takes the profit in comparison with the general potential of the automotive. We now have to repair it for this 12 months.”

Formulation 1’s pre-season formally will get underway on Wednesday at 6:30am GMT, when testing begins in Bahrain.

Photographs of the Crimson Bull Racing RB21

Red Bull Racing RB21