Red Bull Is Bringing Its Coolest Livery Back For The Japanese GP

The Red Bull F1 team is in need of some good publicity at the moment, having abruptly demoted newcomer Liam Lawson just two races into his time with the team and swapped him with Yuki Tsunoda of the VCARB junior team for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.

A sure-fire way of winning people over, though, is to run a cool special livery, and that’s just what the team is doing this weekend. Rather than its usual blue, red and yellow scheme, Red Bull is set to run in Honda Championship white at Suzuka, honouring their partnership with the Japanese manufacturer, which has supplied its engines since 2019.

That’s resulted in all four of Max Verstappen’s World Drivers’ Championships and two Constructors’ titles for the Milton Keynes-based constructor.

It’ll be the last time Red Bull runs a Honda-developed engine (which, for complicated reasons, is self-branded) in Japan before it begins working with Ford in 2026. Meanwhile, Honda will begin supplying the Aston Martin team.

2025 also marks 60 years since Honda won its first ever F1 Grand Prix, when Richie Ginther took the legendary white-and-red RA272 to victory at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix.

Red Bull last ran a white livery to celebrate its relationship with Honda at the 2021 Turkish GP, when it took a double podium. It’ll be hoping to mirror that success, although that could prove an uphill struggle given the pace of McLaren.

Red Bull’s not the only team bringing a special livery to Suzuka. In a rather charming move, Haas has also enhanced its usual black and white scheme with the vibrant pink cherry blossom that’s in full bloom across Japan at this time of year.