On 16th February, Red Bull hosted their car launch with Christian Horner and David Coulthard opening the sequence, where they pulled off the curtains from the RB20. The car looks like an upgrade from the RB19 and Adrian Newey is quite happy with the outcome as he stated during the launch. But what does Max Verstappen think of the car? Will it be the vehicle that will help him achieve his fourth World Championship?

At the reveal when asked about his thoughts on the car, Verstappen said “I guess time will tell, but yeah, I’m excited.” Nevertheless, with Verstappen’s eyes on the prize, he displayed a more realistic approach to the launch, as the World Champion continued, “It’s always very nice to see your new car come to life and how it is, you know, built up with all the people around it; you know, when you do your seat fit as well.”

Verstappen continued “for me at the moment, it’s more about just looking forward to Bahrain, get testing (done), and get comfort with the car, understand what it needs, and yeah, just work from there.” With this, the driver’s views on testing the car out before saying anything from the statistical data.

Drawing reference to how the season is stretched across the whole year he said, “It’s such a long season that we just try to hit the ground running as good as we can. You really try to understand the car and then we’ll see where we end up.” With Verstappen looking to test the car on track, Perez was happy with the RB20.

Checo’s take on the RB20

Checo looked excited about the car launch and when he was asked about his vision for 2024, Perez stated, “I’m just really happy to see that the whole team has put together an incredible concept, and I think now we just want to hit the track properly.”

Talking about the car he added, “But I believe that we made some steps in the right direction, so it should be another great season for the team.” With this Checo expressed his happiness with the team’s efforts and optimism for the upcoming season.
With the RB20 launch, the drivers are all girded up and it looks like Red Bull is prepared to take on the 2024 season with attempts to bring home another World Championship for Max Verstappen. Considering this, do you think Verstappen will continue asserting his dominance on the tracks? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.