The FIA’s entry checklist for the 2024 F1 season brought about confusion after together with Purple Bull’s rebranded AlphaTauri squad below the ‘Racing Bulls’ moniker.
On Wednesday Purple Bull introduced that Visa Money App RB can be the brand new identification for the workforce previously generally known as AlphaTauri and Toro Rosso through the upcoming 2024 season.
The deal led to query marks over how followers and media will seek advice from Purple Bull’s sister workforce below the brand new guise, following studies final yr that the workforce was set to be referred to as ‘Racing Bulls’.
ESPN reported that suggestion was “met with resistance internally” and led to the RB acronym getting used as an alternative. It’s understood that throughout the Purple Bull firm the workforce is being known as VCARB.
The FIA entry checklist – launched on the identical day because the announcement – confirmed Purple Bull’s second workforce has been entered by an organization named ‘Racing Bulls S.p.A’, prompting hypothesis this may very well be what the ‘RB’ refers to.
Nevertheless, RaceFans report the initials ‘RB’ within the new identify doesn’t stand for ‘Racing Bulls’, which was trademarked by a Purple Bull-owned firm final yr.
‘Racing Bulls S.p.A’ additionally seems on the workforce’s new web site and ‘RB’ is the identify given to the chassis, but it surely doesn’t stand for something.
In addition to competing below a brand new identify, the Faenza-based outfit will likely be led by a brand new workforce principal in 2024, with Laurent Mekies becoming a member of from Ferrari to interchange the long-serving Franz Tost, who stepped down on the finish of final season.
Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda will as soon as once more drive for the workforce that completed eighth in final yr’s constructors’ championship.
