Purple Bull presents new liveries for each its F1 groups as Ford returns to the grid

Purple Bull presents new liveries for each its F1 groups as Ford returns to the grid | Components 1

January 16, 2026

in Racing

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The intense blue colouring of Ford will characteristic extra prominently on the automobiles of each of Purple Bull’s Components 1 groups in 2026.

Purple Bull and Racing Bulls revealed their newest color schemes in an occasion in Detroit, the house of the ‘blue oval’, one of many world’s largest automotive producers.

Ford left F1 when it offered its Jaguar crew to Purple Bull on the finish of 2004. Now it’s returning as a contributor to Purple Bull’s new energy unit programme. The models will energy each groups’ automobiles this 12 months.

Neither crew is anticipated to disclose their new 2026 automobiles publicly earlier than the primary pre-season check later this month on the Circuit de Catalunya, which can happen behind closed doorways.

Purple Bull has taken the chance to revive the “gloss look” color scheme it used when it entered F1 21 years in the past. In addition to that includes the “well-known Ford blue”, the crew drew inspiration for its newest look from its unique livery.

Workforce principal Laurent Mekies, who’s main Purple Bull into a brand new season for the primary time, mentioned “the crew have executed an unimaginable job to be right here as we speak and to be within the place to go to [the] Barcelona shakedown [test] with our personal automotive and our personal energy unit for the primary time ever.

“That is the results of the efforts of two,000 individuals on the Purple Bull Expertise Campus, probably the most proficient group that yow will discover and so they have been working collectively to get us to this second. It’s the starting of an especially thrilling journey for all of us and we’ll take to the monitor as one – one Purple Bull chassis and energy unit.”

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Each Purple Bull’s automobiles will characteristic new racing numbers this 12 months. Max Verstappen can not use the quantity one of many reigning world champion however has not returned to the quantity 33 he used beforehand. He’ll drive with quantity three, having turn into the primary driver to alter his profession quantity since they have been launched by the FIA in 2014. He additionally has a brand new crew mate, Isack Hadjar, who will drive automotive quantity six.

The crew offered its livery by a dramatic stunt by which an aeroplane pulled a canopy from a automotive. The footage, that includes Czech pilot Martin Sonka, was filmed in Czechia.

Purple Bull additionally revealed the primary energy unit it has developed will likely be named DM01, in honour of founder Dietrich Mateschitz, who died in 2022. Ben Hodgkinson, the engine programme’s technical director, mentioned: “To get to this second the place we will lastly launch the first-ever Purple Bull Ford Powertrain means rather a lot to myself, and the a number of hundred people who have poured their ardour into this venture with hours and hours of exhausting graft.”

Racing Bulls, Purple Bull’s junior F1 crew, can even incorporate Ford’s blue colors however retain the predominantly white color scheme it launched final 12 months.