Racing Bulls have not scored any points in three Grands Prix and sixth place in the Constructors’ Championship is at risk of being threatened by Haas, which, on the contrary, has started to move up the standings again, moving to within just five points of the Faenza team.
Team principal Laurent Mekies and CEO Peter Bayer are finalising a restructure of the team, which includes a multi-year plan to consistently position Red Bull’s satellite team in the middle of the grid, giving a young driver from the academy the opportunity to break into F1 in a project that doesn’t have to struggle at the back.
The announcement of the driver who will partner the confirmed Yuki Tsunoda is expected between Singapore and Austin and it is not difficult to predict that it will be Liam Lawson, who is preparing to return to F1 as a full-time driver after his positive appearances last year.
Visa Cash App RB F1 Team third driver Liam Lawson to become a regular in 2025
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But Racing Bull’s attention is focused on consolidating the team’s growth in 2025, the last year of the regulation reserved for ground effect single-seaters, before moving on to the agile ones, with shorter, narrower and lighter cars, powered by an innovative PU, with 50% of the power guaranteed by the hybrid and the remaining 50% by the internal combustion engine.
Some teams seem to be intending to propose in 2025 only profound evolutions of the F1 cars that are racing this year, while at Racing Bulls, consistent with their growth ambitions, they are launching the birth of a car that will make a clean break with the RB VCARB 01.
The Red Bull RB19’s front suspension will be taken over by Racing Bulls
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Jody Egginton, the team’s technical manager, has had full freedom of action: around the Honda engine and the Red Bull gearbox, a single-seater will be born, equipped with a new body and suspensions that will be those of the RB19 that dominated the 2023 world championship with a pull rod layout at the front and push rod at the rear. The team’s construction philosophy remains that of remaining one step behind the “mother” team.
A choice dictated by cost logic (Haas, for example, adopts solutions from the current Ferrari, the SF-24) and, in this case, opportunity, given that the RB20 in the hands of Max Verstappen seems to have lost all the technical advantage that the Milton Keynes team had with the RB19…
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