How the renewed Red Bull influence is present in RB's new F1 car

The other Formula 1 team going for a big rebrand in 2024 is the Red Bull sister squad – now known simply as RB. With it openly taking design cues from its partner team and a fresh look that resembles its not too distant past, its new sense of purpose and direction will be examined with its VCARB 01 car.

Published Feb 9, 2024, 7:34 AM

Look, we've had our fun with the Visa Cash App RB name. It's certainly accrued a lot of interest among those who deride the transactions made to stuff finance-driven businesses in its moniker. Things would only have been enhanced if the team had signed Chip Ganassi as team manager and Doriane Pin as a driver so we'd have the "Chip and PIN" dream pairing...

Fiscal puns aside, the name can be forgiven (especially as we're just calling it RB) if the team did not tread the same road as the previous launches and actually put some paint on the car. And, credit where credit is due, it's done the business with a facsimile of the 2017-2019-era Toro Rosso liveries.

Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.