How Red Bull Racing helped 'sibling' Racing Bulls in F1

At the end of 2023, Red Bull decided to change the approach with its own F1 teams. Instead of each building a completely independent F1 car and producing parts, they would share as much as possibly allowed in the future. With greater technical synergy, Racing Bulls could advance up the grid, was the thought.

By now it is 2025, and the car of Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson is certainly no exact copy of the RB21 of Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda. However, Racing Bulls uses the maximum number of allowed parts from its 'big brother', such as the rear suspension and gearbox, the front suspension, and certain parts of the hydraulic systems.

To make the collaboration even more intimate, Racing Bulls has now established a new facility on the Red Bull campus in Milton Keynes, England. "I think, from a synergy perspective, we are where we want to be, in a way that the regulations allow you to share some components and we are sharing them," said team principal Laurent Mekies in conversation with PlanetF1.

The Frenchman, however, states that for Racing Bulls, it is essential to take steps in other areas as well. "Everything we are designing and producing at Faenza or in Milton Keynes – that’s where we need to make the step next if we want to have another breakthrough in performance."

According to Mekies, this means no longer looking to create synergy, since that process has already been initiated and completed.

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