The numbers don’t lie. The Pink Bull RB19 is essentially the most profitable automotive in Formulation 1 historical past. Out of the 16 races run to date this season, the RB19 has solely misplaced as soon as. The title-winning automotive additionally confirmed beautiful single-lap tempo racking up 11 quickest laps and 9 pole positions. Pink Bull Racing has already clinched the World Constructors’ Championship and Max Verstappen is on tempo to finish the drivers’ title race this weekend in Qatar.

CNN purports that the Pink Bull RB-19 and its near-immaculate 2023 season have been the results of an ideal storm of man, second and machine. The vitality drinks big’s crew discovered the candy spot when new technical rules have been launched in 2022. The RB18 and the succeeding RB19 exploit the reintroduction of formed floor impact flooring with undersides that run up towards the monitor floor to provide prodigious ranges of downforce. Pink Bull has loads of reward to heap on Adrian Newey, the crew’s legendary chief technical officer, for main growth on these machines.

The Honda energy models propelling the Pink Bull chassis have additionally confirmed to be essentially the most highly effective on the grid and bullet-proof dependable. The crew has solely suffered a single mechanical retirement throughout a race over the previous two years when Sergio Perez had a gearbox failure throughout the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix. F1 journalist Edd Straw instructed CNN:

“It isn’t simply the consistency of efficiency, however the consistency of how nicely it really works throughout such a variety of circumstances, nook pace profiles and tracks. It’s a automotive that simply works just about in every single place.”

In fact, Pink Bull’s operations didn’t have a spotless fame going into the season. The FIA, the game’s governing physique, discovered that Pink Bull exceeded the newly carried out price cap throughout the 2021 season by $2.2 million. Because of this, the crew was fined $7 million and confronted a compelled discount in aerodynamic testing for 2023. It’s scary what Pink Bull may’ve performed on monitor in the event that they weren’t penalized.

Max Verstappen has already damaged the single-season wins file with 15 victories to date. Whereas the Dutchman has crushed Pink Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton within the file books, it will likely be years till we’ll know how fondly this season is remembered by followers.