Red Bull to debut RB21 car at Bahrain filming day

Purple Bull has set a date for the debut of its RB21 System 1 automobile, with Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson pressed into motion at a filming day in Bahrain on Tuesday 25 February.

Autosport understands Purple Bull will shake down its 2025 challenger someday 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 along with his new automobile, and his new team-mate Lawson will 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 12 months 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 a good time 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 automobile designs, whereas the likes of Ferrari and Williams are nonetheless internet hosting their very own launches.

Talking on the Autosport Awards on Wednesday, Purple Bull staff boss Christian Horner was hopeful his squad can be within the combine once more this 12 months after dropping to 3rd in final 12 months’s constructors’ championship, calling 2025 too near name between McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes and his personal outfit.

“I believe it may be tremendous tight. You are going to have 4 groups which might be going to be very aggressive, so take your choose,” Horner stated, earlier than gathering the Worldwide Driver of the 12 months award on behalf of Verstappen.

“However McLaren are going to be robust. Ferrari are going to be robust. Mercedes are going to have one thing to show as effectively. So, it might be a stellar 12 months.”

With the RB21 Purple Bull is aiming to treatment a few of its predecessor’s steadiness points that derailed a big a part of its 2024 marketing campaign, however will face a growth programme which – like all groups – it should steadiness with work on the all-new 2026 rules.