Red Bull Racing embarked yesterday on its twentieth Season in Formula One with a globally live-streamed present to launch the begin of the Team’s new RB20 challenger and a “Forever Rebl” marketing campaign, which can have a good time 20 years of Red Bull tradition in the sport.
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To hearth up the festivities, at present’s 2024 Season Launch kicked off a yr of celebrations that may discover the Team’s influence on F1 on and off the observe and the way it grew from paddock upstarts to a number of championship winners.
Forever Rebl was created to spotlight the position of Red Bull tradition in creating a crew that has continued to push the boundaries of the sport since its F1 debut at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix. Forever Rebl will see the Team develop a collection of particular occasions and activations all through the yr, every designed to get followers nearer to the Team and its 20-year historical past.
From constructing on final yr’s Make Your Mark livery competitors with new and much more thrilling alternatives for followers so as to add their inventive contact to this yr’s automobile to gorgeous collaborations in artwork and vogue that may even lead to unique merchandise, from a number of in-person occasions round the globe to giving followers the likelihood to get their palms on distinctive items of memorabilia that span the Team’s 20 years in F1. Forever Rebl will put the Team’s devoted at the coronary heart of the celebrations.
And with that spirit in thoughts, followers have been firmly centered on at present’s 2024 Season Launch. Last yr, by way of The Paddock, the crew’s followers have been provided the likelihood to current the launch nearly on their social channels. Still, this yr, for the launch of the landmark RB20, a choose group of fortunate followers have been allowed to attend the launch in individual at the Red Bull Technology Campus.
Over 350 followers, Team companions and media members packed out a state-of-the-art, bespoke constructed set to welcome the RB20 to the racing world. 13-time Grand Prix winner and former Red Bull Racing star David Coulthard hosted the ceremony with presenter Derin Adetosye, Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner, three-time World Champion Max Verstappen, six-time race winner and 2023 runner-up Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez and Red Bull Academy Programme drivers Emely de Heus and Hamda Al Qubaisi. The group got here collectively to ship a present that channelled the crew’s wonderful historical past and arrange an exciting cost into the future for the double title-defending squad.
Unveiling the RB20, Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner mentioned:
This is a momentous yr in the Team’s historical past. Over the previous 20 years, Red Bull has succeeded in altering the panorama of Formula One, and it has performed it by being decided to do issues in a different way, by being dedicated to enjoying onerous and racing much more complicated and by being totally centered on competing for the greatest prizes in the sport. We’ve been fortunate sufficient to try this on a number of events, and 7 Drivers’ titles, six Constructors’ Championship wins, and 113 race victories up to now exhibit the success of Red Bull’s imaginative and prescient for the Team.
The newest chapter of that story begins at present with the RB20. It might be an exciting and vastly aggressive season, however as we noticed final yr, this crew is working at the peak of its powers. In Max and Checo, we now have two drivers who can ship at each circuit in any situations, so I’m assured that, simply as we now have performed for the previous 20 years, we will compete for podiums, wins and hopefully extra championships.
RB20 Technical Specification
| Model title: | Oracle Red Bull Racing – RB20 |
| Power Unit: | Honda RBPTH002 |
| Gearbox: | Eight-speed gearbox, longitudinally mounted with hydraulic energy shift and clutch operation |
| Fuel: | Esso Synergy |
| Oil | Mobil 1 |
| ERS: | Red Bull Powertrains |
| Brakes: | Carbon-carbon composite discs and pads |
| Callipers: | Brembo |
| Rims, wheel diameter: | 18in, entrance and rear, BBS normal provide |
