Month: January 2026

In a joint launch event with Red Bull, sister team Racing Bulls has revealed its updated colour scheme for the 2026 Formula 1 championship, sticking with the predominantly white livery for the upcoming season.

Held at the iconic Central Michigan train station, the launch saw both Racing Bulls and Red Bull reveal their liveries in the city known as the United States home of Ford, with the 2026 campaign marking the first in which Red Bull Ford Powertrains will act as power unit manufacturer for both outfits.

The team’s decision to turn to a white livery proved a success last year, and the colour scheme of the 2026 challenger will follow the same route, with a white base colours complemented by black and blue accents.

Although the little bulls that ran on the engine cover in last year’s car is gone, this livery seems like a downgrade or basic approach with the new Ford partnership.

The car will be driven by Liam Lawson, who stays on for what will be his first full season, and 2026’s only rookie Arvid Lindblad, who moves up to a race seat after Isack Hadjar’s promotion to Red Bull’s main factory team.

Title sponsors Visa and Cash App remain on board and take over the most visible areas on the car, while the addition of blue streaks to the engine cover and sidepod to represent Ford.

Racing Bulls finished sixth in last year’s championship after a strong and consistent campaign, equalling its best result in Formula 1, with Hadjar taking the team’s sixth-ever podium with a spectacular third place finish at Zandvoort’s Dutch Grand Prix. Alan Permane remains on board as team principal after having taken over mid-season from Laurent Mekies, who now heads up Red Bull.

Red Bull Racing has unveiled their new glossy livery with the RB22. This will be the first Formula 1 racing car fitted with in-house power units in partnership with Ford.

The team hosted a special launch in Detroit, at the home of its new power unit partner, by revealing a show car featuring a refreshed colour scheme after years of very similar liveries.

The 2026 look for the RB22 features a “heritage white base” that the team said will “provide more depth and clarity and allow the iconic sun and bull logo to pop”.

The RB22, which will be driven by four-time world champion Max Verstappen and his new teammate Isack Hadjar, who has been promoted from the sister team Racing Bulls.

The black and blue livery has been tweaked with a lighter shade of blue applied in a so-called jacquard pattern, while also returning to a glossy finish after years of running the matte finish.

Following the conclusion of its partnership with Honda, which ended up moving to Aston Martin, Red Bull has been building its first-ever in-house power units at Red Bull Powertrains, the biggest technical challenge the team has taken on in its twenty year history.

“I loved the idea of it being a blank sheet of paper, not just the power unit but the whole company, so we could custom build it to what we knew the regulations were going to be, which was a pretty cool opportunity,” said Red Bull Powertrains chief Ben Hodgkinson.

“The gravity of what that meant took a while to really sink in and trying to find what’s turned into 700 people in a short space of time has been really challenging.

“If you create a really bold and audacious project it only really attracts bold and audacious people, so those people fit the Red Bull culture absolutely like a glove. It’s brilliant for the rate of innovation, so it’s been an exciting, pretty intense four years.”

The new glossy look certainly looks beautiful. Very similar style to the Sebastian Vettel’s cars from the past. Hopefully the new partnership with Ford will be competitive this season.