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Racing Bulls S.p.A., competing as Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team (shortened to Racing Bulls or VCARB), is an Italian Formula One racing team and constructor that has been competing since the season. It is one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian conglomerate Red Bull GmbH, the other being Red Bull Racing. The team is based in Faenza and has a base in Milton Keynes near its sister team.
Known as Scuderia Toro Rosso from 2006 to 2019 and Scuderia AlphaTauri from 2020 to 2023, the team was rebranded to RB for the 2024 season, and then switched to Racing Bulls in 2025.
The current CEO is Peter Bayer, and the team principal is Alan Permane. At the start of the 2024 season, the team retained incumbent drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda from when it was known as AlphaTauri; Ricciardo was dropped after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix and was replaced with Red Bull junior and reserve driver Liam Lawson. Lawson was promoted to the main Red Bull team for 2025, with Formula 2 graduate Isack Hadjar taking his place at Racing Bulls. Lawson was subsequently dropped from the Red Bull team after two races and returned to Racing Bulls, with Tsunoda promoted to the senior team. The team scored their first podium as Racing Bulls at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix.
For the 2020 Formula One World Championship, Toro Rosso was rebranded to "AlphaTauri" in order to promote Red Bull's AlphaTauri fashion brand. According to Franz Tost and Helmut Marko, the rebrand to Scuderia AlphaTauri also acknowledged that it had transitioned from Red Bull Racing's junior team to its sister team.
The team was rebranded to Visa Cash App RB F1 Team for the 2024 season, shortened to the acronymised "VCARB". The new name was widely criticised by fans and the media, with Edd Straw of The Race calling it "the worst team name in Formula 1 history" and "an embarrassment to Red Bull and Formula 1 as a whole", arguing that the name "RB" lacks "personality, identity and ambition", could easily be confused with Red Bull Racing, and exists solely to force the sponsors to be mentioned more often. For the season, the team was entered as "Racing Bulls", discontinuing the usage of the "RB" initialism.
In the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix, the team suffered a double retirement, caused by Haas's Kevin Magnussen crashing into Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo's rear being struck by Lance Stroll. Both drivers suffered major damage to their diffusers, with Ricciardo in particular being forced to retire a few laps later. Tsunoda suffered terminal rear-right damage and retired on the spot. Ahead of the , Ricciardo would leave the team and be replaced by reserve driver Liam Lawson for the remainder of the season. Lawson would then be promoted to Oracle Red Bull Racing to replace the outgoing Sergio Pérez with his place being taken by F2 graduate and Red Bull Junior driver, Isack Hadjar. However, Lawson returned to Racing Bulls after two Grands Prix with Red Bull, with Tsunoda being promoted up to the main team in his place.
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