Purple Bull has set a date for the debut of its RB21 Method 1 automotive, with Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson pressed into motion at a filming day in Bahrain on Tuesday 25 February.
Motorsport.com understands Purple Bull will shake down its 2025 challenger at some point earlier than the brand new season correctly will get underway with three days of official testing on the Sakhir circuit.
World champion Verstappen will log his first miles together with his new automotive, and his new team-mate Lawson can even take the wheel of the RB21 forward of his official Purple Bull debut in Bahrain.
As per the up to date rules, groups are allowed to finish as much as 200km per launch date on Pirelli demonstration tyres. Final yr Purple Bull opted to carry its filming with Verstappen and Perez at Silverstone, a day which was affected by rain.
Purple Bull beforehand confirmed it’s foregoing its personal launch occasion, revealing its 2025 livery alongside all the opposite groups at F1’s launch occasion on the London O2 Enviornment on 18 February, with F1 internet hosting the one-off occasion to have fun its seventy fifth anniversary.
That occasion means a number of outfits, like Mercedes and now Purple Bull, are heading straight to Bahrain for testing earlier than unveiling their precise 2025 automotive designs, whereas the likes of Ferrari and Williams are nonetheless internet hosting their very own launches.
Christian Horner, Workforce Principal, Purple Bull Racing
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Talking on the Autosport Awards on Wednesday, Purple Bull workforce boss Christian Horner was hopeful his squad could be within the combine once more this yr after dropping to 3rd in final yr’s constructors’ championship, calling 2025 too near name between McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes and his personal outfit.
“I feel it’ll be tremendous tight. You are going to have 4 groups which might be going to be very aggressive, so take your choose,” Horner mentioned, earlier than gathering the Worldwide Driver of the 12 months award on behalf of Verstappen.
“However McLaren are going to be sturdy. Ferrari are going to be sturdy. Mercedes are going to have one thing to show as effectively. So, it may very well be a stellar yr.”
With the RB21 Purple Bull is aiming to remedy a few of its predecessor’s stability points that derailed a big a part of its 2024 marketing campaign, however will face a improvement programme which – like all groups – it should stability with work on the all-new 2026 rules.
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