2025 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[Wouter]

The class of 2024






WCC: 2010/2011/2012/2013/2022/2023

Team: Oracle Red Bull Racing
Base: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Team principal: Christian Horner
Technical director: Pierre Waché

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Race drivers:
1 Max Verstappen.
30 Liam Lawson.

Chassis: RB21
Engine: Honda RBPT

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[Wouter]

EXCLUSIVE! Liam Lawson on joining Red Bull and working with Max Verstappen

Liam Lawson, Red Bull’s second driver for the 2025 season, talks to Sky Sports F1’s Craig Slater about his journey into F1,
working with Max Verstappen and lessons learned from his introduction into F1 this season with RB.



Looking Back At Formula 1 2024 With Max Verstappen | Talking Bull
Interview 22 minutes.

[Wouter]

Helmut Marko talks about a number of things in an interview with Sport.de, including:
"The RB 20 was a good car for three races. In Imola we made updates, but they did not provide any improvement. We wanted to bring more downforce, but at the same time this gave the car a much smaller operating window. That had dramatic consequences, because the car became increasingly difficult to drive."

"Then we made some changes and they made the car a bit easier to drive again. We were able to solve the biggest problems, which meant that we were no longer the fourth team. Nevertheless, we were not at the level of McLaren at all."

"The basic concept of the car is completely ready. During the final work we can start looking at weight saving. The biggest challenge for the engineers is to build a car that has a wider operating window."

Marko wants Verstappen and his new teammate Liam Lawson to have a car that can be pushed to the limit in 2025. "We also need to be strong on all circuits. It is clear that driving over the kerbs was one of our weak points. If I may use Max's words: the car jumped like a kangaroo. That cost us a lot of time last year. The problems seem to have been solved in the wind tunnel, but we will see during the test in Bahrain."

The entire German interview (25 min) can be seen here:

https://www.sport.de/video/en536759/exk ... mut-marko/

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The above was in the German media, but I heard the following in the interview myself. I will translate it.

They chose Liam because he is mentally the strongest of the candidates, given his relationships during the jear DTM and
the year Super Formula where he was very much thwarted. It was very unfair, but Liam held up bravely.

The collaboration with Perez has finally ended, it took so long because Perez repeatedly thought that he could find his old fast driving style again, but that did not happen. The contract contained the necessary conclusions and based on that they came to an amount that everyone was happy with.

The fact that Max will become a father at the end of March, Kelly is 28 weeks pregnant, does not mean that Max will skip a race. [I don't believe that. He wants to see his child be born] He is a huge family man, but racing comes first and he will not take paternity leave. Max can do without a driver being 0.3 seconds slower when having a child, Marko said laughing.
GP's end March - begin April: March 23 = China >>> April 6 = Japan >>> April 13 = Bahrain >>> April 20 - Saudi Arabia
Max has to be in China on March 18.

They chose Isack Hadjar because he did not become champion in F2 due to losing 80 points due to mechanical problems, but he was the fastest.
They did not choose Yuki next to Max because they are afraid that he will take it very seriously if he is not as fast as Max
and he has been quite inconsistent in the past year, [I don't agree] but he is incredibly fast, Marko acknowledges.

[WardenOfTheNorth]

Will Max get his wish?

(Talking about the livery on the RB21)

"I hope it's a bit different, I was actually talking about it, that I actually really like these cars as well, with the shiny colour, but we've had so many matte blue cars.

"I think sometimes it's just nice to spice it up a little bit."

https://racingnews365.com/verstappen-ma ... f-red-bull

What do you all think? Is it time for Red Bull to freshen things up a tad?

I also found this interesting:

"Verstappen was then informed that the colours of the Red Bull logo are tweaked from race-to-race to ensure the brand colours remain the same, saying it was "good to know."

[ScottR267]

[lio007]

Here are some more details:

ByBit and Red Bull had been in talks about an extension to its partnership but, faced with uncertainty in the crypto market in the face of the United States presidential elections, ByBit opted against continuing with its F1 involvement at such a high level.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/red-bull- ... bybit-exit

[GrizzleBoy]

Good riddance imo.

F1 teams advertising crypto is one of the most unethical things anyway imo considering how many regular people lose out.

[lio007]

Red Bull ahead of schedule with new F1 wind tunnel:

The Red Bull company has given the green light to build the new wind tunnel at the Red Bull Campus in Milton Keynes, with the work currently in progress and three months ahead of schedule.
"With the building work and afterwards all the new machines you never know when it's coming, but we are ahead of the schedule at the moment," Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache told Motorsport.com.

"We are three months ahead of the plans.

"The guys are doing a very good job, but you never know if you get any delays somewhere else. It is a big project."

The new wind tunnel should be operational in 2026, meaning it can be beneficial to Red Bull for its 2027 challenger.

"Or maybe already help us later in the year [2026]," added Wache.

"It is the oldest wind tunnel in the sport. I even discussed it with Jos [Verstappen] the other day, that they already used this tunnel when he was there at Arrows," Wache said.

"It is an old tool that we updated. There is plenty of newer stuff inside, but we have some limitations. We know those limitations and we try to work around them, but that is clearly more difficult when you are looking for a small delta.

"It is why we invest in the new tunnel. We think we can have a benefit from the new one that we don't have with the current model."

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red- ... /10686031/

[FW17]

Red Bull weren’t sure Yuki Tsunoda could cope with being beaten by Max Verstappen, says motorsport consultant Helmut Marko of measuring up to Verstappen.

“We believe it would cause significant emotional challenges for Tsunoda if he realised alongside Max that he couldn’t beat him, or perhaps even get close to him, and that things weren’t going as he had imagined,”

On the other hand Lawson is well used to being steamrolled by his team mates and is shameless about it.

[BeckettRivera]

EXCLUSIVE! Liam Lawson on joining Red Bull and working with Max Verstappen

Liam Lawson, Red Bull’s second driver for the 2025 season, talks to Sky Sports F1’s Craig Slater about his journey into F1,
working with Max Verstappen and lessons learned from his introduction into F1 this season with RB.



Looking Back At Formula 1 2024 With Max Verstappen | Talking Bull
Interview 22 minutes.

People who actually know F1 know he’s got more potential than Yuki when he’s so close to him with a fraction of the experience. Yuki never had the temperament for the top seat anyway. Sainz was the best option for the seat but Liam is a solid alternative for now.

[PlatinumZealot]

Potential my butt. It's about keeping Max happy, and I say this from an objective point of view. The best chance of winning the WDC is Max and you really need a driver who will pull to side if it comes down to it. Yuki is not that type of guy. Liam seems like he understands the Mission and is just happy for the chance of helping Max win more WDC.

[Wouter]

..... you really need a driver who will pull to side if it comes down to it. Yuki is not that type of guy.

Liam seems like he understands the Mission and is just happy for the chance of helping Max win more WDC.

it looks like you don't know Yuki and Liam at all! Liam is happy to helping Max???
Liam hates to loose and isn't a teamplayer at all.
Yuki on the otherhand did often help the team and Ricciardo when Ricciardo was doing bad/was slow.
Yuki doesn't want to beat Max at all, but Liam does! He said so, not in the first half year but in the second.
Dream on Liam!

[PlatinumZealot]

..... you really need a driver who will pull to side if it comes down to it. Yuki is not that type of guy.

Liam seems like he understands the Mission and is just happy for the chance of helping Max win more WDC.

it looks like you don't know Yuki and Liam at all! Liam is happy to helping Max???
Liam hates to loose and isn't a teamplayer at all.
Yuki on the otherhand did often help the team and Ricciardo when Ricciardo was doing bad/was slow.
Yuki doesn't want to beat Max at all, but Liam does! He said so, not in the first half year but in the second.
Dream on Liam!

I don't need to know him that well because Horner explained that this was discussed with Liam. Remember, Liam is just starting his career and he knows he is finely positioned in the RedBull even if it's second fiddle. Max could leave if he gets bored in the next two to three years and that leaves Liam to be the number 1 of a top team in only his fourth full season.


I think Yuki, has demonstrated enough over the four years for the team to know what he's about. Plus he has other previously discussed factors against him. But anyway... Looking forward to Liam and Max in the coming year. For me, I will be impressed if Liam can keep within 10 seconds over a race onaverage.

[Jurgen von Diaz]

..... you really need a driver who will pull to side if it comes down to it. Yuki is not that type of guy.

Liam seems like he understands the Mission and is just happy for the chance of helping Max win more WDC.

it looks like you don't know Yuki and Liam at all! Liam is happy to helping Max???
Liam hates to loose and isn't a teamplayer at all.
Yuki on the otherhand did often help the team and Ricciardo when Ricciardo was doing bad/was slow.
Yuki doesn't want to beat Max at all, but Liam does! He said so, not in the first half year but in the second.
Dream on Liam!

Yuki doesn't want to beat Max? Of course he does. Red Bull just doesn't want two impulsive drivers on the team. They already have Max, who has god-like status on the team, so they tolerate his impulsiveness because Max is the only one on the grid who can bring championships home with the tricky car.

[nitrotech]

Red Bull weren’t sure Yuki Tsunoda could cope with being beaten by Max Verstappen, says motorsport consultant Helmut Marko of measuring up to Verstappen.

“We believe it would cause significant emotional challenges for Tsunoda if he realised alongside Max that he couldn’t beat him, or perhaps even get close to him, and that things weren’t going as he had imagined,”

On the other hand Lawson is well used to being steamrolled by his team mates and is shameless about it.

Lawson has shown temperamental issues in the limited outings he has had. May not have been as hot tempered as Yuki, but he still has. So the science of measuring them and finding out who is better in that regard, is unclear here. I wish Lawson does well for the opportunity he has. Its disheartening to see Yuki not getting and the subsequent comments from RBR management.