Crimson Bull celebrated its one centesimal F1 world championship race win with Max Verstappen’s victory within the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix – an achievement solely 4 different groups (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes) have scored within the competitors’s 73-year historical past.
By reaching that feat in a 14-year interval since Sebastian Vettel gained the 2009 Chinese language GP forward of his then team-mate Webber, Crimson Bull is formally the quickest F1 marque to rack up 100 wins, with Williams the subsequent greatest in hitting 100 wins in 18 years from 1979-1997.
Crimson Bull, McLaren and Williams have all been in impact factory-backed groups at sure phases of their histories, with Crimson Bull now set to supply its personal engines along with Ford from 2026.
However, notably in the course of the early years of its so-far 18-year stint as an F1 entrant, Crimson Bull struggled to shake off a repute as being little greater than a ‘celebration group’ because of its proprietor being an power drink firm with a penchant for organising brash advertising and marketing campaigns and occasions.
This has modified massively since Crimson Bull started successful in 2009 – one season after Vettel gained for its junior group, then referred to as Toro Rosso on the 2008 Italian GP – and notably since its resolution to rent Adrian Newey from 2006 led to a dominant run to 4 championships in 4 years from 2010-2013, a place it has now returned too with Max Verstappen main the group.
Webber reckons Crimson Bull’s story is “one of many nice success tales of Formulation 1 – must be”.
“If it was a producer, it would get some extra reward and notoriety,” the nine-time F1 race winner, Crimson Bull driver from 2007-2013, and now TV pundit and Oscar Piastri’s supervisor, instructed Motorsport.com.
Mark Webber interviews pole man Max Verstappen, Crimson Bull Racing, after Qualifying
Picture by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Photos
“As a result of, in essence, it’s nonetheless a group manufactured from super people and people who have finished an excellent job to engineer lovely Formulation 1 automobiles for world championships with constructors’ and drivers’ [titles], and to be dominant in some ways.
“So, I feel that their capacity to have the ability to do this has been an excellent success story.
“And what they’ve put into the game in that space – like by way of their workers, the infrastructure at Milton Keynes, what they’ve finished – has been a testomony to them.
“And the sheer dedication that they present – their staff and the individuals and to the game – I’m not going to say it’s second to none however it’s fairly bloody [good].
“We’ve had lots of people come and go.
“And these guys what they’ve finished – with two groups. Individuals neglect in regards to the degree of employment that Crimson Bull has put into the game is actually extraordinary.”