Pink Bull Racing embarked yesterday on its twentieth Season in System One with a globally live-streamed present to launch the beginning of the Workforce’s new RB20 challenger and a “Eternally Rebl” marketing campaign, which is able to have fun twenty years of Pink Bull tradition within the sport.
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To fireside up the festivities, at this time’s 2024 Season Launch kicked off a yr of celebrations that may discover the Workforce’s affect on F1 on and off the observe and the way it grew from paddock upstarts to a number of championship winners.
Eternally Rebl was created to spotlight the position of Pink Bull tradition in growing a staff that has continued to push the boundaries of the game since its F1 debut on the 2005 Australian Grand Prix. Eternally Rebl will see the Workforce develop a sequence of particular occasions and activations all year long, every designed to get followers nearer to the Workforce 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 artistic contact to this yr’s automobile to beautiful collaborations in artwork and style that may even end in unique merchandise, from a number of in-person occasions across the globe to giving followers the possibility to get their arms on distinctive items of memorabilia that span the Workforce’s twenty years in F1. Eternally Rebl will put the Workforce’s trustworthy on the coronary heart of the celebrations.
And with that spirit in thoughts, followers have been firmly centered on at this time’s 2024 Season Launch. Final yr, through The Paddock, the staff’s followers have been provided the possibility to current the launch just about on their social channels. Nonetheless, this yr, for the launch of the landmark RB20, a choose group of fortunate followers have been allowed to attend the launch in particular person on the Pink Bull Know-how Campus.
Over 350 followers, Workforce 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 Pink Bull Racing star David Coulthard hosted the ceremony with presenter Derin Adetosye, Workforce Principal and CEO Christian Horner, three-time World Champion Max Verstappen, six-time race winner and 2023 runner-up Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez and Pink Bull Academy Programme drivers Emely de Heus and Hamda Al Qubaisi. The group got here collectively to ship a present that channelled the staff’s wonderful historical past and arrange an exhilarating cost into the long run for the double title-defending squad.
Unveiling the RB20, Workforce Principal and CEO Christian Horner stated:
It is a momentous yr within the Workforce’s historical past. Over the previous 20 years, Pink Bull has succeeded in altering the panorama of System One, and it has accomplished it by being decided to do issues in a different way, by being dedicated to enjoying exhausting and racing much more advanced and by being completely centered on competing for the largest prizes within the sport. We’ve been fortunate sufficient to do this on a number of events, and 7 Drivers’ titles, six Constructors’ Championship wins, and 113 race victories thus far exhibit the success of Pink Bull’s imaginative and prescient for the Workforce.
The newest chapter of that story begins at this time with the RB20. It is going to be an exhilarating and vastly aggressive season, however as we noticed final yr, this staff is working on 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 accomplished for the previous 20 years, we are able to compete for podiums, wins and hopefully extra championships.
RB20 Technical Specification
| Mannequin identify: | Oracle Pink Bull Racing – RB20 |
| Energy Unit: | Honda RBPTH002 |
| Gearbox: | Eight-speed gearbox, longitudinally mounted with hydraulic energy shift and clutch operation |
| Gasoline: | Esso Synergy |
| Oil | Mobil 1 |
| ERS: | Pink Bull Powertrains |
| Brakes: | Carbon-carbon composite discs and pads |
| Callipers: | Brembo |
| Rims, wheel diameter: | 18in, entrance and rear, BBS normal provide |
