Pink 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 attaining that feat in a 14-year interval since Sebastian Vettel received the 2009 Chinese language GP forward of his then team-mate Webber, Pink Bull is formally the quickest F1 marque to rack up 100 wins, with Williams the subsequent greatest after hitting 100 wins in 18 years from 1979-1997.
Pink Bull, McLaren and Williams have all been in impact factory-backed groups at sure phases of their histories, with Pink Bull now set to supply its personal engines at the side of Ford from 2026.
Throughout the early years of its so-far 18-year stint as an F1 entrant, Pink Bull struggled to shake off a repute as being little greater than a ‘get together workforce’ because of its proprietor being an vitality drink firm with a penchant for organising brash advertising campaigns and occasions.
This has modified massively since Pink Bull started profitable in 2009 – one season after Vettel received for its junior workforce, then known as Toro Rosso on the 2008 Italian GP – and significantly since its resolution to rent Adrian Newey from 2006 led to a dominant run of 4 championships in 4 years from 2010-2013, a place it has now returned with Max Verstappen main the workforce.
Mark Webber interviews pole man Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing, after Qualifying
Photograph by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Photos
Webber reckons Pink Bull’s story is “one of many nice success tales of Components 1 – must be”.
“If it was a producer, it would get some extra reward and notoriety,” the nine-time F1 race winner, and Pink Bull driver from 2007-2013 instructed Autosport.
“As a result of, in essence, it’s nonetheless a workforce fabricated from super people and those who have achieved a fantastic job to engineer lovely Components 1 vehicles for world championships with constructors’ and drivers’ [titles], and to be dominant in some ways.
“So, I feel that their skill to have the ability to do this has been a fantastic 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 achieved – has been a testomony to them.
“And the sheer dedication that they present – their staff and the folks and to the game – I’m not going to say it’s second to none but it surely’s fairly bloody [good].
“We’ve had lots of people come and go.
“And these guys what they’ve achieved – with two groups. Individuals overlook concerning the degree of employment that Pink Bull has put into the game is actually extraordinary.”