Racing Bulls' 2025 F1 car breaks cover at Imola

Racing Bulls has become the latest team to fully reveal its 2025 Formula 1 car.

The team unveiled its new livery at the F1 75 Live season launch in London on Tuesday night and issued renders of the new VCARB 02 design at the same time, but these did not show the full array of 2025 updates and still featured 2024 bodywork.

Yuki Tsunoda and new team-mate Isack Hadjar then used the 'filming day' regulations to conduct a shakedown at Imola on Wednesday, from which it has now issued imagery.

Racing Bulls is the fourth team known to have run its 2025 car on track after McLaren, Williams and Haas, while Sauber and Alpine have put out basic renders of their new designs.

The second Red Bull team moved into new UK premises on the same campus as Red Bull Racing at the start of this year, which team boss Laurent Mekies admitted may mean a period of adjustment that will affect the start of its 2025 season.

"We have started in our Milton Keynes facility on January 2, so we have now two very good headquarters, so the team is jelling together," he said.

"A lot of people have joined, is it ready yet to say as the car is up there? No we don't think it's ready yet, we expect a tough first part of the season.

"But with the conviction that the direction of travel is the right one, people are pulling together in the right direction."

Racing Bulls continues to take significant elements of its design from Red Bull, Mekies describing the situation this week as: "We try to share what is within the regulations, it is not 100% of the load but it's the main components we can share - the gearbox, suspension."

He said the main focus of the 2025 design had been to get more consistent performance than last season, when Tsunoda and previous team-mates Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson could only combine for eighth in the constructors' championship.

"We had very good moments last year, we had more difficult races," said Mekies.

"So in terms of overall targets we have tried to understand what made our car not so consistent last year and hopefully we will be able to address some of that.

"Now we have done that whilst in parallel we were continuing to evolve the team, to continue to build the teams, so I'm not here to tell you that we think we have solved all of our competitiveness issues, no, but certainly the team is jelling together in the right directions."

Pictures courtesy of Racing Bull's X account