Oracle Red Bull Racing

REBL ARTFCT - REBL Masterpiece

This REBL ARTFCT piece of art is titled REBL Masterpiece and honours the fact that every car from the RB1 to RB20 is a work of art.

Not

just

for

their

requisite

and

near-supernatural

balance

engineering

and

design

–

but

because

the

iconic

liveries

the

cars

have

sported

across

the

years.

REBL ARTFCT #13

The Masterpiece is represented by a wing mirror from the RB11 painted in the now famous Camo Bull livery. The centrepiece of the REBL ARTFCT is accompanied by an actual paint gun used on the Team’s cars. It will be displayed in a case that is designed to look like the Team’s paint shop, in a pristine white case splattered with spray paint, making paper and sketches.

The Camo Bull was unveiled on the RB11 in 2015 at preseason testing in Jerez, Spain. It wowed the paddock and the fanbase when the garage doors opened to reveal this stunning, non-linear, monochromatic design. It was so well love that it had many screaming for it to be the paint scheme on the cars for the entire season.

However, it wasn’t just one of the coolest paint schemes the F1 paddock had ever seen, it was purposely designed for a reason. Camo Bull was based on designs used by car manufacturers when they’re road-testing new vehicles. These paint schemes hide the lines and definitive shape of the car, protecting the aerodynamic package from their sneaky rivals.

Formula One isn’t any different, you’ll often see chief designers and aerodynamicists walking down the pitlane at preseason testing looking what their rivals have brought to the party. So, the Camo Bull paint scheme, which clearly had a Red Bull twist to it, was perfect for the Team to help hide the package on the RB11 in plain sight.

But it’s not just about looking good and hiding secrets. Additional weight means time lost, so these paint schemes need to weigh next to nothing. Depending on the type of circuit, an extra kilogramme of weight can cost the team 0.04s per lap. This means that the luxury of paint comes at a cost. That difference would cost a minute in lap times over the duration of a race, so the engineering in the paint makes it a masterpiece in its own right, no matter how good it looks.

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