Eight drivers’ and 6 constructors’ titles headline a Pink Bull Components 1 CV that features 130 wins – sufficient for fourth on the all-time record behind Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes.
It additionally has a serious junior driver programme, which has launched the careers of many profitable drivers, together with Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.
For this record of high 10 F1 drivers, we’ve taken under consideration the quantity of success the racers scored with Pink Bull and its sister workforce Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB/Racing Bulls, the impression that they had and the circumstances of their time inside the Pink Bull fold. It doesn’t rely their achievements at different groups.
Crew years: 2025-presentRaces with workforce: 24Team wins: 0Team titles: 0
The earlier model of this record had Alex Albon in tenth, whereas Yuki Tsunoda can be a powerful candidate. However Hadjar will get the nod for placing in arguably the best rookie F1 marketing campaign for a Pink Bull-affiliated driver since Verstappen and Carlos Sainz at Toro Rosso in 2015. He additionally scored a podium, which neither Albon nor Tsunoda managed for the ‘B’ workforce.
Whereas Tsunoda is the third-highest scoring driver for Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB/Racing Bulls and possibly nonetheless deserves to be in F1, his time within the lead Pink Bull squad was woeful – and he was crushed within the 2025 standings by Hadjar.
Hadjar, F2 runner-up in 2024, began his F1 profession badly with a shunt in troublesome circumstances earlier than the Australian GP had even began. However thereafter he bounced again and put collectively a powerful rookie marketing campaign, usually outclassing Liam Lawson – who joined the workforce having been demoted from Pink Bull after simply two GPs.
The Frenchman demonstrated spectacular tempo at occasions, notably qualifying sixth quickest at Monaco earlier than taking sixth within the race. A string of factors finishes helped him to twelfth within the last desk, topped by an excellent drive to 3rd place at Zandvoort.
How a lot additional he can climb this record will rely largely on whether or not Pink Bull can produce a extra user-friendly automotive in 2026 and the way Hadjar offers with the problem of getting F1’s present benchmark as his team-mate.
Daniil Kvyat, Pink Bull Racing RB12
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Crew years: 2014 (Toro Rosso), 2015-16 (Pink Bull), 2016-17 (Toro Rosso), 2019-20 (Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri) Races with the groups: 110 (89 Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri, 21 Pink Bull) Crew wins: 0 Crew titles: 0
Has anybody had fairly as many Pink Bull possibilities as Kvyat? Helped by his 89 begins for Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri, the Russian is the fourth-highest factors scorer for the ‘B’ workforce, behind Pierre Gasly, Sainz and Tsunoda.
After changing into GP3 champion, Kvyat graduated to F1 in 2014. He did effectively sufficient alongside the skilled Jean-Eric Vergne (who outscored Kvyat 22-8) to take the Pink Bull seat vacated by Ferrari-bound Vettel for 2015.
Kvyat was second within the chaotic Hungarian GP and scored three extra factors than unlucky team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, although the Australian remained on the head of Pink Bull’s cost.
Kvyat took one other podium within the 2016 Chinese language GP, the third spherical of the season, however already he was in bother given Verstappen’s speedy rise. The Dutchman changed him for spherical 5, one thing Kvyat struggled to course of whereas again at Toro Rosso, not helped by the actual fact Verstappen received first day trip for Pink Bull within the Spanish GP.
Kvyat’s struggles continued in 2017 and he lacked consistency. He was dropped after crashing out of the Singapore GP, although scored a degree in his one-off ‘return’ within the US GP.
A 12 months out as Ferrari’s simulator driver preceded one other Toro Rosso deal for 2019. He did a strong job, although struggled to match Gasly when the Frenchman joined him after being changed by Albon at Pink Bull.
Gasly was effectively forward within the renamed AlphaTauri workforce in 2020, scoring greater than twice Kvyat’s factors tally. Kvyat, regardless of some robust performances, was lastly changed for 2021 by the subsequent potential star within the Pink Bull junior ranks, Yuki Tsunoda.
8. Pierre Gasly
Pierre Gasly, Pink Bull Racing RB15
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Crew years: 2017-18 (Toro Rosso), 2019 (Pink Bull), 2019-22 (Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri)Races with the groups: 108 (96 Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri, 12 Pink Bull)Crew wins: 1 Crew titles: 0
Judged simply on his time on the senior squad, Gasly wouldn’t be as excessive on this record. However his performances with the Toro Rosso and rebranded AlphaTauri workforce proved that the Frenchman is without doubt one of the main skills in F1’s tight midfield.
One other graduate of Pink Bull’s junior programme, Gasly made 5 begins for Toro Rosso on the finish of 2017 earlier than his first full marketing campaign alongside Brendon Hartley. Gasly received the intra-team combat in 2018, nailed the times when the Toro Rosso was aggressive and earned a Pink Bull seat when Ricciardo walked out.
His 12-race stint on the ‘A’ workforce was marked by struggles to get near Verstappen, racing slower vehicles within the midfield and a few points working with the workforce to seek out options. He was changed by Albon and returned to Toro Rosso, however rapidly recovered from the setback.
Gasly then turned one in all F1’s most spectacular performers. He scored a effective podium within the 2019 Brazilian GP and led the road for AlphaTauri. Had F1 rookie Tsunoda come near matching Gasly’s 2021 rating, the workforce would have crushed Alpine for fifth within the constructors’ championship.
And, in fact, there was the big day at Monza in 2020. Gasly took benefit of a security automotive and Lewis Hamilton/Mercedes error to carry off Sainz’s McLaren to win the Italian GP.
Regardless of the success it turned clear Gasly was by no means going to get again to the principle Pink Bull squad and, after a usually disappointing 2022 season with the awkward AT03, he lastly left for pastures new at Alpine.
7. Carlos Sainz
Carlos Sainz, Scuderia Toro Rosso
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Crew years: 2015-17 (Toro Rosso) Races with the workforce: 56 Crew wins: 0 Crew titles: 0
Is Sainz the expertise that Pink Bull let get away? Given his performances at McLaren, Ferrari and Williams since 2019, it’s simple to assume so.
The Spaniard entered F1 with Toro Rosso in 2015 as fellow rookie Verstappen’s team-mate. Verstappen scored extra factors, however a lot of the hole was all the way down to automotive unreliability. Sainz edged Verstappen 10-9 in qualifying and the actual fact there was rigidity indicated they noticed one another as rivals.
When Verstappen was promoted to the Pink Bull workforce after simply 4 races of 2016, Sainz comfortably outperformed new team-mate Kvyat and led Toro Rosso’s assault. He was additionally good in 2017, his seventh place within the Chinese language GP being probably the greatest drives of the season, and he scored all however 5 of the workforce’s 53 factors.
However he was additionally heading out the door. Sainz contested the final 4 GPs in 2017 for Renault, his residence for 2018 earlier than the profitable change to McLaren. Greater than eight years after Sainz left, solely Gasly has racked up extra factors for Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB/Racing Bulls.
Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing, 1st place, celebrates on the rostrum
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Crew years: 2021-2024 (Pink Bull)Races with the workforce: 90Team wins: 5Team titles: 0
Perez is probably the toughest individual to charge on this record. A race winner for Pink Bull, introduced in with out going by means of its junior ranks, Perez’s status ended up being undermined because of an atrocious season alongside Verstappen in 2024.
After attempting each Gasly and Albon within the seat vacated by Ricciardo, Pink Bull appeared exterior its personal pool of drivers for 2021. Racing Level star Perez was signed in an try to provide Verstappen some help in his combat towards Mercedes.
It was partially profitable. Perez typically supplied helpful back-up, most notably within the Azerbaijan (which he received), French, Turkish and Abu Dhabi GPs. However he was additionally too typically off the frontrunning tempo.
With simply eight factors separating Verstappen and Hamilton on the high of the drivers’ desk, it was Valtteri Bottas’s 36-point margin over Perez that ensured Mercedes took its eighth consecutive constructors’ crown. The RB16B was undoubtedly difficult to drive however it additionally had a small benefit over the opposition most of the time.
Perez however stored his seat for 2022, which meant he acquired his palms on the pacesetting RB18 wherein Verstappen took 15 wins. Perez scored two, together with a effective efficiency in Singapore, however was crushed to second within the standings by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
Perez began 2023 effectively, combining his prowess on avenue venues Jeddah and Baku with Verstappen misfortune to win, however in the end struggled to get close to his team-mate. There have been no additional wins, whereas Verstappen racked up a record-breaking 19, although Perez did nonetheless take second within the championship.
The Mexican’s last season at Pink Bull was robust, because the difficult RB20 was caught by rivals, notably McLaren. Verstappen nonetheless managed to take 9 wins and an excellent title, however Perez slumped to eighth and Pink Bull was crushed by each McLaren and Ferrari within the constructors’ standings.
It was no shock when Perez misplaced his drive forward of 2025, although the next struggles of Lawson and Tsunoda, plus automotive criticisms by Verstappen, point out the poor performances weren’t all his fault.
David Coulthard, Pink Bull Racing
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Crew years: 2005-08 (Pink Bull) Races with the workforce: 71 Crew wins: 0 Crew titles: 0
Coulthard’s Pink Bull file – two podiums throughout 4 seasons – doesn’t look spectacular when in comparison with some on this record. However the 13-time GP winner was an necessary a part of the workforce’s early days following Pink Bull’s buy of the Jaguar squad.
One of many first key signings for Pink Bull supremo Dietrich Mateschitz and workforce boss Christian Horner, Coulthard introduced 9 years of expertise of McLaren’s title-winning operation.
Coulthard took a shock fourth first day trip within the 2005 Australian GP, scored the workforce’s first F1 podium at Monaco the next 12 months, and outscored his varied Pink Bull team-mates throughout 2005-07, together with Mark Webber, although the Australian had the higher hand on uncooked tempo. In his last season in 2008, Coulthard was outperformed by Webber, however even then there was one other podium end within the Canadian GP.
Coulthard continued working as a Pink Bull advisor after hanging up his helmet and, in his 2018 e-book The Successful Components, mentioned: “One in every of my most rewarding experiences was to make use of the ultimate years of my racing profession to assist develop Pink Bull Racing into changing into a dominant workforce.”
4. Mark Webber
Mark Webber, Pink Bull Racing RB7
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Crew years: 2007-13 (Pink Bull) Races with the workforce: 129 Crew wins: 9 Crew titles: 0
Webber was a loyal Pink Bull lieutenant over the seven years he was with the workforce, which he helped turn out to be a frontrunner. When Pink Bull set the tempo in F1, Webber normally needed to give greatest to Vettel and needed to accept 9 wins and a trio of third locations within the championship as his team-mate racked up 4 titles.
Webber’s greatest likelihood got here in 2010. 4 wins and three seconds put him 14 factors away from Vettel and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso with three rounds to go. However he crashed out of the Korean GP in difficult circumstances and Pink Bull – rightly because it turned out – allowed Vettel to remain forward in Brazil.
That meant Alonso led Webber by eight factors going into the Abu Dhabi finale, with Vettel an additional seven adrift. Ferrari coated Webber’s strikes within the race, Pink Bull stored Vettel on the optimum technique and it was the German who received each the GP and title.
Vettel additionally tailored to the blown diffuser idea higher and was normally the clear workforce chief after 2010. Webber bowed out of Pink Bull and F1 after a 2013 season wherein Vettel took the title with 13 wins and he did not win as soon as.
3. Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo, Pink Bull Racing, dives into the swimming pool on the Pink Bull Vitality Station
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Crew years: 2012-13 (Toro Rosso), 2014-18 (Pink Bull), 2023-24 (AlphaTauri/RB)Races with the groups: 164 (64 Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB, 100 Pink Bull)Crew wins: 7 Crew titles: 0
The struggles Pink Bull has had with its second automotive since Ricciardo left underline simply how good the Australian was alongside Verstappen.
After displaying flashes of brilliance at Toro Rosso in 2012-13, Ricciardo joined the principle squad for the beginning of the brand new turbo-hybrid period and instantly put four-time champion Vettel within the shade.
Ricciardo took three wins when the dominant Mercedes workforce discovered drama and was a snug third within the 2014 drivers’ standings. The next season was harder amid some dangerous luck however Ricciardo bounced again in 2016, once more ending third within the desk and taking victory in Malaysia. For the second time, he topped Autosport’s High 50 drivers desk on the finish of the 12 months.
By now he had the extremely rated Verstappen as his team-mate, however the Dutchman was nonetheless vulnerable to some wild moments and errors. Ricciardo beat Verstappen within the factors in 2017 after which received each the Chinese language and Monaco GPs early the next season as Verstappen made errors that allowed alternatives to slide away.
However the tide was turning. It was clear the workforce momentum was behind Verstappen and, because the teenager acquired into his stride, Ricciardo discovered life harder. He completed effectively behind Verstappen within the 2018 standings and shocked Pink Bull by heading to Renault at season’s finish.
After two troublesome years at McLaren, Ricciardo returned to Pink Bull for 2023 as its reserve driver after which acquired an AlphaTauri race seat, changing Nyck de Vries. Ricciardo by no means appeared to get again to his previous self, solely scoring a handful of factors earlier than being dropped following the 2024 Singapore GP, however that shouldn’t detract from simply how good he had been for a lot of the earlier decade.
2. Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel, Pink Bull Racing RB6
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Crew years: 2007-08 (Toro Rosso), 2009-14 (Pink Bull) Races with the groups: 138 (25 Toro Rosso, 113 Pink Bull) Crew wins: 39 (1 for Toro Rosso, 38 for Pink Bull) Crew titles: 4 (2010-13)
Pink Bull’s authentic F1 prodigy, Vettel is the one driver on this record to have received for each Toro Rosso and its large brother. His win at a moist Italian GP in 2008 stays one in all his most memorable performances.
Vettel’s commencement to Pink Bull coincided with F1’s new guidelines and a reset of the aggressive order. Adrian Newey’s RB5 ended up because the season’s quickest automotive however a mix of the odd slip-up and Jenson Button’s effective early kind with Brawn meant the crown stayed simply out of attain.
It didn’t for lengthy. Vettel got here out on high in a dramatic four-way title combat in 2010, then dominated the next 12 months, profitable 11 of the 19 races. The 2012 combat was nearer as Alonso excelled himself at Ferrari, however Vettel was in a position to do sufficient on the season finale, recovering from an early spin to take sixth and the title by three factors.
Vettel swept to 13 wins from 19 GPs in 2013 to make it 4 consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ championships.
The arrival of the turbo-hybrid guidelines lastly knocked Pink Bull from its perch and Vettel didn’t initially like the brand new vehicles. After being crushed by new team-mate Ricciardo he left to affix Ferrari for a brand new problem.
1. Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing, 1st place, celebrates on the rostrum
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Crew years: 2015-16 (Toro Rosso), 2016-present (Pink Bull)Races with the groups: 233 (23 Toro Rosso, 210 Pink Bull)Crew wins: 71Team titles: 4 (2021-24)
Vettel held him off on the high of this record for some time, however now there will be little question that Verstappen is the best Pink Bull F1 driver. He’s already scored the best variety of factors and wins for Pink Bull and is essentially the most full driver on this high 10.
With Mercedes taking a look at a possible take care of the rising Dutch star, Pink Bull gave Verstappen his F1 debut in 2015 on the age of simply 17. He rapidly impressed with Toro Rosso and earned a commencement to the principle squad for spherical 5 of the 2016 season, changing the disappointing Kvyat.
Helped by the conflict between Mercedes team-mates Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at the beginning of the Spanish GP, Verstappen was in a position to maintain off Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen to take a sensational victory.
His early years had been characterised by spectacular pace, daring overtaking, the odd mistake and a few doubtful conduct in wheel-to-wheel fight, his strikes underneath braking particularly attracting criticism.
Having been outscored by team-mate Ricciardo in 2017, Verstappen additionally needed to watch the Australian win each the Chinese language and Monaco GPs early the next season after throwing away his personal possibilities. Although he by no means admitted it publicly, this appeared to result in a barely modified method.
Since then, Verstappen’s errors have been few and much between. He gained ascendency at Pink Bull throughout 2018, received two races and, when Ricciardo left to affix Renault, turned the clear workforce chief.
Verstappen was excellent sniping for victories and podiums towards the dominant Mercedes vehicles of 2019-20, twice ending third within the drivers’ standings.
The rule adjustments for 2021 gave Pink Bull a small benefit over Mercedes, organising a dramatic duel between Verstappen and Hamilton for the crown. Each made errors and put in some excellent performances, with Verstappen popping out on high on the ultimate lap of the Abu Dhabi GP showdown following controversial choices from race management.
After preliminary points had been overcome, Pink Bull was the workforce to beat in F1’s second-ground impact period and Verstappen comfortably took the crown once more in 2022 and 2023, scoring a exceptional 19 wins within the latter marketing campaign.
As Pink Bull misplaced its benefit throughout 2024 and into 2025, Verstappen proved his class towards the percentages. He held off a resurgent McLaren to take a fourth world title in 2024, his very good Brazilian GP win within the moist a spotlight, and pushed Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri all the best way in 2025, falling simply two factors brief.
Solely two drivers have scored extra GP wins with a workforce (Hamilton’s 84 with Mercedes and Michael Schumacher’s 72 at Ferrari) and Verstappen may find yourself surpassing each. The one questions are how aggressive Pink Bull can be in F1’s new guidelines period and the way lengthy it will probably maintain on to its largest asset.
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing
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