Racing Point 2020 livery on show car

First pictures: Racing Point presents its new look for 2020

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Racing Point has presented its new look for the 2020 F1 season following a change in title sponsor during the off-season.

Former title sponsor SportPesa, which joined the team in a two-year contract last season, has curtailed its deal and does not appear on the car. BWT, who brought their distinctive pink branding to the car in 2017, has stepped into the role of title partner this year.

However further change is expected in 2021, when the team is due to become Aston Martin’s works F1 operation, following owner Lawrence Stroll’s investment in the luxury car manufacturer.

Stroll’s son Lance remains part of their driver line-up for a second year, while Sergio Perez begins his seventh year with the team.

The new livery was presented on a show car at Lake Mondsee in Austria, near BWT’s headquarters. BWT announced it will donate one well in Gambia for every point the team scores this year.

Lance Stroll, Sergio Perez, Racing Point, 2020
Stroll and Perez remain the team’s drivers for 2020
Perez and Stroll accumulated 73 points between them last year. “We had the potential to have both of them in the points at every race,” said Racing Point CEO and team principal Otmar Szafnauer.

“Sometimes, lap one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Grosjean’s still racing, he can run into you. You never know. But at least if we’ve got the potential to have both in the points at every race, then not only will we hit our target, we will also hit the target of the wells in Gambia.

Having finished seventh in 2019, Szafnauer said the team “want to be a strong fourth” this year. “We want to be closer to the top three than we’ve ever been in the past. And we want to be the top of the midfield.

[smr2020test]”Last year was a bit of a difficult year for us. We ended up seventh where the back end of the midfield grid. But this year we want to take a step up and be where we normally can be.

“In order to do that we’ve got to do a lot of development work over the winter. It’s not that easy. The competition is getting stronger.

“McLaren did a really good job last year. Renault was the might of the motor company behind them, the 650-plus employees that they have aren’t going to be easy. Even Toro Rosso with the resurgence of the Honda power train did really well towards the end of last year.

“But I’m confident with the work that we’ve done over the winter on the new car and the work that Mercedes, our power train partner has done on the power train and the hard work the drivers have been doing to keep fit and work in our simulator, we’ll have a good chance to hit our targets for the Formula 1 team as well as for the wells in Gambia.”

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30 comments on “First pictures: Racing Point presents its new look for 2020”

  1. Wait… What happened to the whole “Aston Martin” rebranding thing?

    1. Four paragraphs from the end…

      However further change is expected in 2021, when the team is due to become Aston Martin’s works F1 operation, following owner Lawrence Stroll’s investment in the luxury car manufacturer.

  2. For the first time this season a team has managed to improve on its 2019 livery. Also, plus points to them for them managing to provide photographic evidence that Lance Stroll can smile…

    1. Dutchguy (@justarandomdutchguy)
      17th February 2020, 15:27

      Are you seriously suggesting the 2019 Williams was better looking than the 2020?

      1. In pure livery terms yes. Don’t get me wrong I thought it was terrible, but at least it looked cohesive. It doesn’t work for me at all because the blue has no reason to be on there.

    2. @geemac

      Stroll always smiles before pre season starts… After he gets in the car it’s resting disgust face for the rest of the season.

    3. I think Alpha Tauri has the biggest change livery wise and one i like white with dark navy blue. But the rest has not so much of a change of livery at all (offcourse they were adjusted but not so i could say wauw that is really a change)

  3. Really good looking livery IMO. Like it and the Alfa

  4. Yep, this is the first time the BWT is really a consistent livery, and it looks good (IMO).

  5. I reckon they’ll challenge Ferrari.

    1. @peartree In anyone’s dreams.

    2. @peartree I’m a Racing Point fan, and am unsure whether to admire your optimism about your favourite team or interpret the statement as a dire prophecy regarding the fate of Ferrari.

  6. Cheeky, throwing in “works” team. I didn’t know RF was on the Aston Martin marketing team.

  7. Did he seriously have a dig at Grosjean at the car launch – amazing!

    1. The optimistic view is that he is (correctly) describing Grosjean’s startline performance as difficult to predict. Although in fairness to Romain, collision-related stuff is only one factor. The usual mid-pack lottery effect, qualifying-race performance car correlation and what stage Haas was at with their aero investigations that week were three others. (Proximity of the two Haases was a third factor, but I’m not sure if the propensity of Kevin and Romain to focus on each other when nearby was to their advantage or detriment).

      Jarno Trulli, in the early 2000s, was also like this – sometimes he’s make an amazing conversion to maintain his (usually good) qualifying performances, sometimes he’d seemingly disappear, and other times he’d be somewhere in the middle, in which case your race would probably be determined on which side of the “Trulli train” you were on at the end of lap 1. While he rarely hit people, multiple race strategists took steps to incorporate Jarno’s potential effects into their computers.

      If you have a race plan, and it involves Jarno (then) or Romain (now) having a particular type of start… …you don’t really have a plan, just some ideas about to be scattered onto the tarmac.

  8. Sometimes, lap one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Grosjean’s still racing, he can run into you. You never know.

    Absolutely savage!

    1. @minnis @Only Facts!
      But unfair to single out him specifically. He, after all, isn’t the only one who’s messed up on an opening lap far from it.

      1. @jerejj I’m sure both Lance and Checo have done so in their time also…

        1. @alianora-la-canta Indeed and Lance did so as recently as in the last race.

      2. Your right offcourse now Ocon is back you have to wonder who is he going crash into Checo, Daniel or Max. Or against Grosjean i expect lots of clashes and bodywork pieces.

    2. @minnis

      It’s a bit rich coming from a team that had more teammate clashes than anyone else in 2017

    3. I look both ways before crossing the street incase Romain and Kmag are around

      1. @bernasaurus Don’t forget to look out for Marcus Ericsson

  9. “Sometimes, lap one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Grosjean’s still racing, he can run into you. You never know.

    Ouch!

  10. Comment about “Grosjean still racing”, implying that he could crash into his drivers was totally inappropriate! Especially coming from a team’s CEO that is.

    1. @fanatikosf1 wonder what Max Verstappen, Horner, and co, think about these pink cars “alterating” races for no reason…

      1. Probably less frustrated than Otmar was about pink cars “alterating” races for no reason by the same point.

        (For anyone wondering, I’m alluding to the propensity they had back then to alter their own races by hitting each other, the most recent of which had been 5 races prior to the one @fer-no65 is alluding to).

  11. Even more purple than before. Not that I’d mind.

  12. > Perez and Stroll accumulated 73 points between them last year.

    That’s a very…kind way of putting it. Sounds like it came straight from RP PR.

  13. The car looks good in the new pink livery, however their driver overall in full pink is terrible, Sergio and Lance look more like cleaning ladies than race drivers.

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