Racing Bulls S.p.A., competing as Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula One Team (shortened to Racing Bulls or VCARB), is an Italian Formula One racing team and constructor that has been competing since the 2024 season. It is one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian conglomerate Red Bull GmbH, the other being Red Bull Racing. The team is based in Faenza and has a base in Milton Keynes near its sister team.

The team traces its roots to Minardi, which competed in Formula One from 1985 to 2005, before being bought by Red Bull in 2006 to become the junior team to Red Bull Racing. From 2006 to 2019, it competed as "Toro Rosso" and was known for housing future Red Bull talent, such as future four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel, former Scuderia Ferrari driver and current Williams Racing driver Carlos Sainz Jr., and four-time World Champion Max Verstappen. In addition, Toro Rosso had previously employed 2023–24 driver Daniel Ricciardo as part of its line-up in 2012 and 2013.

For the 2020 Formula One World Championship, Toro Rosso was rebranded to "AlphaTauri" in order to promote Red Bull's AlphaTauri fashion brand. According to Franz Tost and Helmut Marko, the rebrand to Scuderia AlphaTauri also acknowledged that it had transitioned from Red Bull Racing's junior team to its sister team.

The team was rebranded to Visa Cash App RB F1 Team for the 2024 season, shortened to the acronymised "VCARB". The new name was widely criticised by fans and the media, with Edd Straw of The Race calling it "the worst team name in Formula 1 history" and "an embarrassment to Red Bull and Formula 1 as a whole", arguing that the name "RB" lacks "personality, identity and ambition", could easily be confused with Red Bull Racing, and exists solely to force the sponsors to be mentioned more often. For the 2025 season, the team was entered as "Racing Bulls", discontinuing the usage of the "RB" initialism.

works honda rbpt engines (2024–2025)

RB entered the 2024 F1 season with drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda. The team continued using Honda RBPT power units, having used Honda-designed power units since the 2018 season when it was named Scuderia Toro Rosso.

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The RB VCARB 01 (originally known as the AlphaTauri AT05) is a Formula One car constructed by RB for the 2024 Formula One World Championship. It is the first chassis built and designed by the team. The car was driven by Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, with Liam Lawson replacing Ricciardo, who departed the team after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, for the final six races of the season. Ayumu Iwasa held reserve driver duties. The car achieved one fastest lap from Ricciardo in Singapore.

The RB VCARB 01 had a form reminiscent of the RB19, which Red Bull drove to record results in 2023. The car, at the start of the season, mainly carried modified components from the AlphaTauri AT04 with the aerodynamic design brought in the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix. The Honda RBPTH002 was further improved in reliability from the previous year's model, and was designed with the goal of drawing out the full potential of the power unit. and high performance.

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The Racing Bulls VCARB 02 is a Formula One car constructed by Racing Bulls that competed in the 2025 Formula One World Championship.

The car was driven by Yuki Tsunoda and Isack Hadjar, with Liam Lawson (who drove 11 races for the team in 2023 and 2024) later returning to replace Tsunoda from the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix after being demoted from the main Red Bull outfit after the first two rounds of the 2025 season (the Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix).

The VCARB 02, which is powered by the Honda RBPTH003 power unit, is the last Racing Bulls car to be powered by Honda RBPT-badged engines; from the 2026 season, Racing Bulls and its sister team Red Bull Racing will utilise Red Bull Powertrains engines.

Technically, the VCARB 02 was slightly improved compared to its predecessor with a new body design, sidepods, ground effect and a boxy airbox shape design. Other parts are visually not interchangeable.

Isack Hadjar finished third at the Dutch Grand Prix, scoring his first podium in Formula One. This was the team's first overall podium finish since the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, when they were known as Scuderia AlphaTauri.

ford-badged rbpt engines (2026 onwards)

Racing Bulls and sister team Red Bull Racing decided to switch to Red Bull Ford Powertrains power units from 2026 onwards and thus concluded the eight-year long-standing alliance with Honda that powered the team since 2018 season under Scuderia Toro Rosso and Scuderia AlphaTauri brandings, and helping Ford return to Formula 1 for the first time since 2004.

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The Racing Bulls VCARB 03 is a Formula One car designed and constructed by Racing Bulls to compete in the 2026 Formula One World Championship. It is being driven by Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad, the latter in his first Formula One season.

The VCARB 03 is the first Faenza-based Formula One car not to use Honda engines since the Toro Rosso STR12 in 2017, as well as the first car to use a Ford-branded engine since the Minardi PS04B in 2004.

The VCARB 03's foundations and technical direction were laid by former technical director Jody Egginton with subsequent design and development led by chief technical officer Tim Goss and deputy technical directors Guillaume Cattelani and Andrea Landi , the VCARB 03 is drastically different to its predecessor due to the 2026 Formula One regulation changes. The VCARB 03 debuted at Imola in January 2026.

The VCARB 03 livery was revealed during a live event at Detroit, the home of Ford, alongside its sister team Red Bull Racing on 15 January 2026. The car maintains the "Racing Bulls" identity with a heavy emphasis on white and blue.