RedBull boss reveals the significance of naming Max Verstappen’s 2022 F1 car RB18


RedBull boss reveals the significance of naming Max Verstappen’s 2022 F1 car RB18

Red Bull

The Formula1 2022 season is just a few months away and the RedBull team principal Christian Horner has recently revealed the name of their 2022 season livery. They have decided to call it the RB18.

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It has been stated in Essentiallysports that the RedBull team has decided to name their 2022 season car RB18. During the 2020 season of Formula1, they called named their car RB16 whereas for the 2021 season they called it RB16B as they did not change the chassis of the car for the 2021 season.

Christian Horner
Christian Horner

Many folks believed that the RedBull team would name their 2022 car RB17 but the Kynes-based outfit has decided to change the script and has named their 2022 car RB18. Most of the Formula1 enthusiasts did not see this coming.

Max Verstappen

Christian Horner has recently stressed the fact that the team is entering into a new era with the regulations change and for the 2022 season they wanted to show the number of years they have been in Formula1.

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While talking about it Horner said “2021 with a slightly modified chassis have taken over for reasons of savings was an exception. We want to go back to a number that shows how many seasons we are in Formula1 hence the 18.

Performance of the RedBull drivers during the 2021 season

Verstappen and Perez
Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez

The 2021 Formula1 season was a roller coaster ride for the fans the media and the pundits of the sport. The RedBull team decided to recruit Sergio Perez for the 2021 season after a strong showing for Racing Point in 2020. Sergio had a decent first season at RedBull as he finished fourth in the standings with 190 points and also managed to get on the podium five times during the 2021 season. Moreover, he managed to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

RedBull
RedBull

As far as Max Verstappen is concerned, the 2021 season of Formula1 was Max Verstappen’s best season that he has had for the RedBull team. Max finished the season as the world champion and in the process of doing that managed to win 10 races, 10 pole positions, and 18 podium finishes during the season. Max was able to accumulate a total of 395.5 points during the whole course of the season.

His season for the RedBull team got a whole lot sweeter as he was able to snatch Lewis Hamilton’s record eighth world title away from him on the last lap of the last race at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.

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Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

Given all this, the RedBull team would be looking to retain their title during the 2022 season and it is going to be quite intriguing to see if Mercedes and co would be able to knock RedBull off their pedestal during the 2022 season.

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