On February 26, the three-day test drives for the Formula 1 season 2025. Red Bull is one step ahead of his competition and uses a regular trick to put your new car on the slopes before the competition.
The ten Formula 1 teams will start the very hot phase of the season preparation on February 26. Then the three official test days are coming up in Bahrain. If you were allowed to test as soon as you wish, the preparation has now shrunk to just three days. Thus, the teams are under good pressure.
However, Red Bull gets a fourth test day – and even goes on the route with the new RB21 in front of everyone. The team of world champion Max Verstappen uses a film day for this. Each team has up to two film days with a maximum of 200 kilometers each in the season.
Formula 1: Red Bull uses film day for the first test with new RB21
The idea is to give the race stables the opportunity for advertising and promo videos. Film days are often used to collect the first impressions of the vehicles or to sort out childhood diseases.
If you notice after the first round during the test drives that you have to do even larger renovation work, you lose valuable hours.
Then prefer to find these problems a day before the test drives begin. So Red Bull sends on the slopes on February 25th – one day before the competition – Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson, as reported by the Dutch edition of “Motorsport.com”.
The focus at Red Bull and chief technology chief Pierre Wache was on the balance in winter, which was the main problem last season, which ultimately ensured that one “only” won the driver’s title. “That doesn’t mean that we will not concentrate on the rest, but we first had to concentrate on the balance problems,” said the Frenchman.