Reigning Method 1 champion Max Verstappen will make his Goodwood Competition of Velocity debut subsequent month as a part of a significant Pink Bull presence on the occasion.
Verstappen is because of drive the RB16B, during which he claimed the primary of his F1 titles in 2021, up the well-known hill at Goodwood on the Sunday of the 11-14 July occasion – and this automotive is one among seven Pink Bull F1 fashions scheduled to be in motion.
This will even be the primary time within the occasion’s historical past that the present F1 world champion will probably be in attendance.
The Dutchman’s present team-mate Sergio Perez is right down to drive a RB19 from 2023, whereas crew boss Christian Horner – a Method 3000 competitor within the Nineties – can be as a result of get again behind the wheel, in a RB8 from 2012.
Former Pink Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo, David Coulthard, Mark Webber and Christian Klien are slated to pilot the opposite automobiles up the hill, together with the RB1 with which the crew made its F1 debut 20 seasons in the past.
The intensive Pink Bull line-up will comply with the world debut of its new, Adrian Newey-penned RB17 Hypercar on the Friday of the competition.
“In its 31-year historical past, that is the primary time that the Competition of Velocity has celebrated a Method 1 crew on this scale,” stated occasion founder the Duke of Richmond.
Christian Klien, Pink Bull Racing RB1
Photograph by: Sutton Pictures
“To have each the present drivers – to not point out the reigning world champion – the CEO and crew principal, in addition to so many crew icons is implausible.
“Goodwood’s motorsport occasions have at all times prided themselves on the entry that they provide followers and I’m delighted that Red Bull Racing has fulfilled our ambition by bringing collectively such an illustrious and excellent group of drivers and automobiles.”
Present F1 groups are an everyday characteristic of the occasion and Goodwood beforehand revealed that six squads would have a presence in 2024.
Becoming a member of Pink Bull will probably be Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren, Alpine and Williams – the latter having confirmed that its 2024 drivers Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant, together with crew boss James Vowles, will probably be taking to the hill through the fixture.
McLaren has additionally introduced that Emerson Fittipaldi will drive the M23 design with which he gained the 1974 F1 world title and Bruno Senna will drive his uncle Ayrton’s 1991 championship-winning MP4/6.
This 12 months marks the fortieth anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s loss of life at Imola in 1994, whereas additionally it is 50 years since McLaren secured its first F1 world title, in addition to the 1974 Indianapolis 500.
The automotive that gained that race – Johnny Rutherford’s M16C/D – will probably be displayed on the McLaren storage through the Goodwood weekend.