The sister group of the all-conquering Red Bull machine has undergone a rebrand – and F1 followers hate it.
A brand new multi-year international partnership has been born between Red Bull and Visa which has seen one other change of identify to the second group owned by Austrian engine drink conglomerate Red Bull – previously referred to as Scuderia Toro Rosso and later to Red Bull’s AlphaTauri to advertise Red Bull’s vogue model.
AlphaTauri’s identify change has been broadly adopted with the group trying set to be named ‘Racing Bulls’ in autumn final 12 months. But that concept was dismissed for being too much like Red Bull and the industrial and advertising group quickly went to work on a brand new identify.
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And followers have been left livid after it was confirmed that AlphaTauri have been renamed Visa Cash App RB Formula One group with instant impact. The rebrand will see the 2 sister groups on the observe ramped up as a lot as present guidelines permit as they now share a advertising and communications division.
But followers couldn’t care in regards to the monetary features that each groups are set to revenue from, as a substitute loathing the concept of the identify and in addition their extremely cringey bio: “A Formula 1 team working weekends always pure vibes.” One touch upon Twitter mentioned: “I know the elite levels of all sports are only truly concerned with financial gain but even by the current extremely low expectations, that’s hilarious.”
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A second wrote: “Worst team name in the history of f1”, a 3rd commented: “I actually thought there couldn’t be a name worse than Stake F1 Team…” A fourth merely mentioned: “Your name is s***”. While one other hoped it was to be nothing greater than a prank, saying: “Is today April 1st? Please say yes.”
The group, which has fortunately been recognized by the acronym V-CARB, is ready to launch their 2024 automotive and livery on February, 8, alongside drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsuonda – who stay with the group after ending the season collectively as AlphaTauri drivers.