Good news for Red Bull: 'RB21 passes FIA crash tests, shakedown date known'
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Good news for Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing: the RB21, the car for the 2025 F1 season, is said to have passed the FIA 's crash tests. A date for the shakedown, for which the team is using one of their two filming days available, is also said to have been set.
'Red Bull RB21 passes FIA crash tests'
The RB21, which Verstappen and his new teammate Liam Lawson will drive in the new Formula 1 season, has reportedly passed the FIA's mandatory crash tests. PlanetF1.com reports. With that, the car would be ready to take to the track for a shakedown and then the winter test in Bahrain.
A date for the shakedown has also reportedly already been set. On February 25, a day before the start of winter testing, Verstappen and Lawson would take their new car onto the Bahrain International Circuit for a filming day. In the following three days, the winter test is scheduled at the same venue.
In previous years, Red Bull held the shakedown at the Silverstone circuit, near the team's home base in Milton Keynes. But because of the winter schedule - with the joint livery launch in London on February 18 and the winter test from 26 February - the Austrian formation would have chosen to hold the first day of filming in Bahrain.
Red Bull traditionally holds a test at Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix, to put the new car through its paces before the official pre-season begins.
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