We already knew this for a few weeks, but it was made official a few days ago, when the FIA published the entry list for the 2025 Formula 1 season. The RB team – or Visa CashApp RB Formula One Team, to be as precise as possible – will change its name for the upcoming campaign and the following ones. But don't expect a revolution, quite the contrary!
Indeed, from 2025, RB will definitively adopt the name Racing Bulls. This is the fourth name of the Faenza team since the takeover of the Minardi team at the end of 2005, after Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri, RB and therefore, Racing Bulls. An obvious and logical decision since in common usage, drivers, media, managers and players in the discipline already used this clearer and more appropriate name for a Formula 1 team. In 2024, Racing Bulls was already the name of the legal entity which engaged the RB team. This new name also reaffirms the filial link with the parent team, Red Bull.
Racing Bulls acknowledges having “rushed some things” with its name
Peter Bayer, general manager of the team, admitted on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final round of the 2024 season last December, that there had been some confusion around the name of his team at the time of unveil it, early 2024. “We had a hard time, to some extent, getting people to understand what the name of the team was, and we saw so many versions. In January, everything happened in the space of a few weeks and we probably rushed some things”he explained, recognizing a lack of clarity for the name of his team, drowned between two sponsors.
Two brands which will remain title sponsors of the Italian team in 2025 and which will therefore not really change the official name of the Faenza team. “With Visa Cash App Racing Bulls, nothing will actually change”underlined Peter Bayer. The acronym VCARB is therefore still valid for 2025… but let's admit it, it will only be used little in the everyday language of Formula 1. RB is dead, long live Racing Bulls!
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