The Pink Bull RB8 which carried Sebastian Vettel to his third world championship title has reappeared since then in a lot of Pink Bull’s totally different liveries.
Nevertheless for its newest showrun in Houston, Texas final week the crew took the bizarre step of repainting it within the colors of its second crew: RB.
Groups commonly run previous automobiles in present liveries to mirror their present sponsors. However for apparent causes this can be very uncommon for a crew to color its automobile within the colors of a rival. Nevertheless Pink Bull’s relationship to RB is in contrast to every other on the grid.
Uniquely, the Pink Bull drinks firm owns two Method 1 groups. RB is the third id it has given its second crew.
RB initially competed as Toro Rosso between 2006 and 2019, then turned AlphaTauri, then was rebranded once more this season. Whereas Pink 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.
Pink Bull Junior Group 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 Pink Bull driver David Coulthard additionally appeared within the automobile’s successor, the 2013 championship-winning RB9, painted within the crew’s present livery.
Pink Bull’s newest rebranding of its second crew was partly performed in order that it may gain advantage from sponsorship offers struck by the world champions. Money App, one in all RB’s title sponsors, beforehand appeared on Pink Bull’s automobiles, 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 searching for to develop, having elevated the variety of races there to 3. The crew 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 Pink Bull’s rivals have raised considerations over the potential benefits they could acquire by proudly owning a number of groups.
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