Pink Bull in the present day launched into its twentieth Season in Method One because it took the wraps off the RB20, the automobile with which Max Verstappen hopes to assert his fourth title.
Over 350 followers, workforce companions and members of the media had been current to welcome the RB20 to the racing world. 13-time Grand Prix winner and former Pink Bull 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.
Unveiling the RB20, Christian Horner mentioned: “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 Method One and it has achieved it by being decided to do issues in another way, by being dedicated to taking part in exhausting and racing even more durable and by being totally targeted on competing for the largest prizes within the sport.
“We have been fortunate sufficient to do this on a number of events and 7 Drivers’ titles, six Constructors’ Championship wins and 113 race victories up to now display the success of Pink Bull’s imaginative and prescient for the workforce.
“The newest chapter of that story begins in the present day with the RB20. It may be an exciting and vastly aggressive season however as we noticed final yr, this can be a workforce working on the peak of its powers and in Max and Checo we’ve two drivers who can ship at each circuit, in any situations, so I am assured that, simply as we’ve achieved for the previous 20 years, we are able to compete for podiums, wins and hopefully extra championships.”
“It does look a bit completely different,” mentioned Max Verstappen. “I believe the workforce undoubtedly pushed on fairly a bit from final yr and I believe that is very constructive. I am simply wanting ahead to get to Bahrain, begin testing and actually see what the automobile is able to.”
“You possibly can see that the workforce has achieved an unbelievable job,” added Perez. “We have gone very aggressive with the idea, so I am wanting ahead to it.
“I discover it nice from Pink Bull that we have had such a dominant automobile final yr, that we simply modified fully our idea. It is one thing that I believe requires quite a lot of starvation within the workforce, to maintain pushing all of the boundaries. [It] will probably be attention-grabbing to see how every part feels on monitor.”
Requested in regards to the shakedown that came about at Silverstone earlier this week, Verstappen mentioned: “Sadly it was fairly moist so that you’re solely driving on rain tyres, however every part was working very effectively and I believe that is at all times nice,” the 26-year-old defined. “You drive out of the field and there are not any issues and also you simply do what you need to do earlier than you get to Bahrain.”
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