The Grand Prix of Miami, which debuted last year, is the first "stars and stripes" event of the season, an event that by nature can only be exaggerated and out of line. Red Bull, the first team to win on the circuit that surrounds one of the symbols of this city, the Hard Rock Stadium, last year, has seen fit to bring a special livery for the occasion. A livery resulting from the creativity of its fans chosen through a contest. Let's see both the alternatives and the winning design that will color Sergio's RB19 Perez and Max Verstappen.
Fan livery
Who doesn't dream or never dreamed as a child of being able to design an F1 livery? Probably, as Enzo Ferrari also said, all children would still draw it Red, like Ferrari. But we have to be content with what we have, and in this case with what Red Bull has offered. The Austrian team, perhaps to meet its fans, disappointed by the repeated and rather monotonous design of the Red Bull single-seaters of recent years, has launched a competition for fans, called to design a livery for the three Grands Prix that will take place in America namely Miami, Austin and Las Vegas. The choice of the Grands Prix is not accidental, in fact Oracle, the multinational that became the title sponsor of the team in 2022, has its roots here.
The chosen color combination is fuchsia, purple and turquoise, colors that immediately recall the colorful coasts of Miami, and that "gaming" atmosphere. On the profile Twitter the four most popular liveries of the team have been published. The change is not radical, in fact only the area of the sides will see a different color from the traditional one of the bonnet. A first spoiler also appeared on the helmet chosen by Verstappen, which will not be white and gold but blue with turquoise and fuchsia lines.
But let's see how the RB19 will look!
The special livery is quite simple and has lines that intertwine following the design of the bellies and ranging from fuchsia to turquoise.
An RB19 that continues to evolve
Red Bull will not only bring chromatic innovations to Miami. The Austrian team is one of the few to have brought the first updates rather early, already from Baku despite the risk of the weekend Sprint. The new format complicated things, given that teams and drivers only had one free practice session available to test the new features. Despite the wide margin that separates it from its opponents, Red Bull did not say it was particularly satisfied with the updates and will continue with the development program also in Miami, in order to arrive at the final version of the RB19 as soon as possible.
In fact, if last year the fight with Ferrari was rather close and a lot was played on updates, this year Red Bull immediately marked a large gap from the competition. Immediately extracting the full potential from a single-seater that can already dominate on paper at every circuit would mean focusing on 2024. This is why the team is pushing so hard.
