Yahoo Autos Meet the Visa Cash App Red Bull F1 team's VCARB 01 car
Visa Cash App Red Bull Formula 1 sounds like the answer to a hypothetical question in a multiverse. Its abbreviation VCARB, however, sounds like a performance test (VMax, VO2) or a blood panel finding (lipids, cholesterol, VCARBs), and we kinda dig it. The VCARB team, formerly known as Toro Rosso and then Alpha Tauri, introduced its first car today, the VCARB 01, in Las Vegas.
Everyone has noted its visual similarities to Red Bull's championship-winning RB19 from last year, especially in the sidepods. Racing News 365 went so far as to say, "Calling the new VCARB-01 a clone of the RB19 may be considered an understatement," calling out everything from the front suspension's pull-rods to the rear suspension's gearbox connections as cloned from the senior Red Bull car. One of the questions lurking underneath the assertion is, if this is how far the junior team pushed last year's Red Bull, how much further will Red Bull take the RB20?
The second thing everyone's noticed: Wow, the color. Alpha Tauri's blue and white scheme was always an easy one to spot last year, the VCARB 01 will be like Rio's Carnival at 200 miles per hour. Good for them and good for us. As with Williams F1's FW46, some of the colors serve historical purposes, these particular shades of blue and silver looking back to Toro Rosso.
