Red Bull revealed what its car will look like for the next Formula 1 campaign, the first with this new generation of single-seaters designed to improve the number of overtaking and the spectacle on the track.
The Austrian team announced a few days in advance the presentation date of the RB18 , its weapon to retain the world title achieved in the last round of the season thanks to Max Verstappen overtaking Lewis Hamilton in the last lap.
Gallery: this is the Red Bull RB18 for the 2022 Formula 1 season
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At 5:00 p.m. in Spain, the Milton Keynes team showed for the first time the design of the great protagonist of the day, although as Helmut Marko , advisor to the Austrian team, already warned, it is not the definitive single-seater that will be the March 20 at the Bahrain Grand Prix, the first race of the year.
As expected, the team has kept its main colors, where dark blue and red stand out with the yellow of the Red Bull logo. Therefore, it is the seventh season with the same decoration, since the last drastic change took place in 2016.
The RB18 is the 18th model of Red Bull in the highest category, it is striking that the team has skipped the “RB17” because last year they used an evolution of the 2020 called RB16B. The Austrians will continue with Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez at the head of their line-up, and will seek to conquer the only achievement that eluded them last season, the constructors’ championship, which went to Mercedes by 28 points.
The Dutchman will face his seventh campaign as a Red Bull driver, the sixth fully, and will have the honor of wearing the #1 on the back of his RB18. The Mexican pilot, for his part, will enjoy his second year in the energy drinks team after greatly helping to meet the goal of becoming champions again in 2021, he achieved that his partner achieved.
After Haas, the Austrians have been the second team to show their car for 2022 in which a unique opportunity is presented thanks to the radical change in the technical regulations. We will have to wait until February 23 to see the single-seaters on the asphalt of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where the first three days of pre-season testing will be held, which will be followed by another three days in Bahrain the week before the inaugural appointment of 2022.
