Team celebrates winning Honda partnership in Formula One with a special livery for Suzuka race week.
Oracle Red Bull Racing will honour a Championship-winning partnership with Honda at this week’s 2025 Japanese Grand Prix as part of a team takeover in Tokyo and Suzuka. Here is all you need to know:
– With Max Verstappen and new Japanese teammate Yuki Tsunoda taking on Suzuka this weekend, Oracle Red Bull Racing will celebrate the final season of one of the most successful partnerships in motorsport history with a special livery inspired by Honda’s RA272 first victory in the sport.
– The striking white and red look will adorn both Oracle Red Bull Racing RB21s because this season marks the 60th anniversary of Honda’s first victory in Formula One and the design concept is a tribute to the RA272, which gave Honda its inaugural win in 1965.
– The livery recreates the RA272’s iconic Japanese flag motif, featuring the “H” logo on the nose and the simple Honda logo on the rear of the bodywork. A special logo commemorating 60 years since Honda’s first F1 victory will also be displayed across all four Red Bull cars on the grid.
– This will be the second time Oracle Red Bull Racing have raced in white to honour Honda, after they earned a double podium through Verstappen and Mexican Sergio Pérez at the 2021 Turkey Grand Prix in a special livery.
– Christian Horner, CEO and Team Principal, said: “Our relationship with Honda deserves celebration, it has been one of continued success and brought the Team one of the most triumphant and dominant periods in our history. Max has won four World titles with a Honda Power Unit, and the Team have lifted two Constructors’ titles. In addition, Honda’s reliability enabled it to complete the most successful season in the sport’s history in 2023. This livery is a tribute to Honda’s success in the sport and the final year of what has been a thoroughly enjoyable partnership. I am looking forward to seeing it out on track.”
– Koji Watanabe, President of Honda Racing Corporation (HRC), said: “It is quite moving to see the RA272 tribute livery on the latest Red Bull Racing machine, in the final year of Honda and Red Bull’s partnership. Our successful path will continue to shine in the history of F1.”
– Prior to the Japanese Grand Prix on Tuesday evening, Oracle Red Bull Racing look set to take over Tokyo with a REBL Car Culture Meet, which celebrates the spirit of Japanese car culture.
– The event, which will embody car culture’s authentic links to F1, sees enthusiasts and their cars from across the city come together as a community. Paying further homage to Honda and Japanese motocore, an iconic ’90s Honda NSX wrapped in a matching livery to the RB21 will be displayed alongside an Oracle Red Bull Racing showcar to introduce the team’s 2025 Japanese Grand Prix livery globally.
– There will be a customisation station for bespoke REBL Car Culture merchandise and the launch of a three-way collaboration between iconic Japanese streetwear brand Neighborhood, Honda and Oracle Red Bull Racing.
– Also in a world first, the REBL Car Culture Meet is followed by a Red Bull Showrun through the streets of Tokyo on Wednesday featuring all four of the current 2025 Red Bull F1 drivers.
– Dutchman Max Verstappen, Tsunoda, New Zealand’s Liam Lawson and rookie Isack Hadjar will take to the streets in a Honda RA272, the RB16B which saw Verstappen win his first drivers’ title powered by Honda and two RB7s – which won double World Championships – from the team’s Heritage collection.
– When Oracle Red Bull Racing hits Suzuka for race week, it will not just be the RB21 which is looking all white, Team kit partner Castore have produced a limited edition white, red and black polo to match the special livery, which will be worn by the whole Team in Japan, including the quickest pit crew in F1.
– Verstappen and Tsunoda will wear bespoke white, red and black Sparco racesuits and special edition Japan GP helmets for the race.
