Red Bull F1 Team In No Mood to Party, Scraps Planned Special Liveries for RB20

Red Bull was set to run special fan-designed liveries at three Grands Prix this year as part of its celebrations to mark 20 years in Formula 1.

It ran a tweaked scheme at the British Grand Prix, and was due to sport revised designs in Singapore and Austin. But the program was canceled amid Red Bull’s slump in performance and instead the one-off design for Singapore ran on the F1 Academy car of Red Bull-affiliated driver Hamda Al-Qubaisi (see photo above).

The team, which recently fell to second place in the F1 Constructors' Championship for the first time in more than two years, claimed that there were concerns that the special liveries would add weight to Red Bull's RB20 cars.

"Unfortunately, when we came to the testing phase of what some REBL CUSTMS designs could look like, in real life, on the RB20, we found the paint used to create these bespoke, full car takeover liveries, added unforeseen and undue weight to the bodywork of the RB20," the team reportedly wrote on its X (formerly Twitter) page in a post that has since been taken down.