Red Bull announced that the special liveries planned for the upcoming Singapore and United States GP won’t be used to avoid adding unnecessary weight to the car.
The 2024 season has been quite different from the previous one for the Milton Keynes outfit. It’s not as dominant as it used to be, and the competition has now got better.
McLaren, Ferrari, and Mercedes are now regularly as fast or even faster than Red Bull, which means that the team needs to maximize every area of the car to extract as much performance as possible.
Thanks to Oscar Piastri’s win and the great comeback that Lando Norris managed to do in Baku, the Woking-based outfit is now ahead of Red Bull in the constructors’ championship. Therefore, the team decided to ditch the plans of special liveries to reach the maximum performance and keep fighting for the title.
“Unfortunately when we came to the testing phase of what some REBL CUSTMS designs could look like, in real life, on the RB20, we found the paint used to create these bespoke full car takeover liveries added unforeseen and undue weight to the bodywork of the RB20,” a team’s statement reads.
“As I’m sure you can imagine, any additional weight compromises performance and the team are continuing to prioritise making this car as competitive as possible for the remainder of the 2024 season.
“As a result, it is with a heavy heart that we must let you know the team has made the decision to not run the REBL CUSTMS liveries on the RB20 at the Singapore and United States GPs.”