Red Bull has revealed images of the team’s 2025 Formula 1 car, the RB21, prior to a shakedown run in Bahrain on Tuesday.
The Austrian squad unveiled an unchanged design scheme last week at the F1 season launch in London, but no details about the new car had been released until now.
However, Red Bull has taken a discreet approach as the studio shots have been snapped with minimal lighting to not show the design elements of the RB21 in detail.
Red Bull will give the RB21 its debut at the Bahrain International Circuit, with Max Verstappen and team-mate Liam Lawson sharing the 200 kilometres that are permitted.
Verstappen will be gunning to land a record-equalling fifth consecutive title in 2025, having overcome Red Bull’s issues across the previous campaign to retain his crown.
The RB20 began the 2024 season as the dominant package, but upgrades induced balance problems which culminated in Verstappen enduring a 10-race winless run.
But while the Dutchman prevailed again, Red Bull missed out on the Constructors’ Championship as Sergio Perez trailed a seismic 285 points behind his team-mate.
Lawson, who ended that season with Red Bull’s satellite squad, has been promoted in the Mexican’s place, making the step up to the senior side with 11 starts to his name.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has asserted that the team harbours quiet optimism that it has managed to address the quirks which unsettled the RB21’s predecessor.
“The team have worked very hard over the winter to work on some of the vices of RB20,” Horner told media including Motorsport Week.
“I think we’ve had a good winter, and the team has been working incredibly hard.
“We’ll get the first indication next week as to have we managed to address some of the issues.
“We managed to improve them during the course of the latter third of last year, and we’ll see if we’ve managed to go a step further over these early races.”
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