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 following 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 provide 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 ‘occasion 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 Pink Bull started successful in 2009 – one season after Vettel received for its junior group, then referred to 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 group.
Mark Webber interviews pole man Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing, after Qualifying
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Webber reckons Pink Bull’s story is “one of many nice success tales of System 1 – needs to be”.
“If it was a producer, it’d get some extra reward and notoriety,” the nine-time F1 race winner, and Pink Bull driver from 2007-2013 advised Autosport.
“As a result of, in essence, it’s nonetheless a group product of great people and people who have finished an ideal job to engineer lovely System 1 automobiles for world championships with constructors’ and drivers’ [titles], and to be dominant in some ways.
“So, I believe that their potential to have the ability to try this has been an ideal success story.
“And what they’ve put into the game in that space – like when it comes to 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 stage of employment that Pink Bull has put into the game is actually extraordinary.”