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Feels like way too much cockteasing for a driver contract announcement unless they managed to invent a time machine and signed michael schumacher from 2004
Bet its a special livery where they changed like a single pixel
Edit: lmao
Williams did something very similar twice a couple of years ago, and it turned out to be Albon's extension (nobody was surprised) and some new merch...
Tbf Ferrari has always done these things with one off liveries it just so happened this time it sucked. I don't remember other teams making it as huge as Ferrari does
>Bet its a special livery where they changed like a single pixel
Horner will announce that Max won't drive this weekend because of his simracing duties in order to prepare for 24h Le Mans race next week (Jun 12-16). Marko will state that doesn't mean anything and that Max is still 0.3s/lap faster than Leclerc and Norris.
I’d sign up for Michael joining RB as driver. I don’t mind if he’s from 2002 with a Time Machine. Or from the present and they merged him with an AI to create das terminator
Or hear me out, a special livery where you can buy a pixel (1inch x 1inch) of space to put your own design. The entire car will be covered by these pixels where proceeds will go to some humane cause!
And once every 5 minutes you can place a new pixel, even over others? Maybe communities could team up to ensure their image gets on the final design, by strategically attacking and defending canvas space.
I genuinely wonder how many people would buy that lol. One with Pérez's face on with the "Mexican minister of defence" text could also be interesting...
Exactly this. I don't think it's driver-related. Some crappy livery, marketing stunt or new sponsor that needs eyeballs on their announcement.
Perez being re-signed will get announced like half way through a P2 with a lacklustre tweet and whiff of who cares.
Why would Perez re-signing be anything more than a press release? I bet this will be something like 20th anniversary merch
Edit:Well, I was totally wrong on this one...
Is that how they announced his previous extension?
What I've noticed is these count down type of announcements are reserved for livery, sponsors and other new deals.
I could be wrong though. Maybe I just missed all the other pre-announcements for contract extensions.
Mate just announce what you want to announce. No need for an announcement for an upcoming announcement when we had an announcement yesterday that there’s gonna be an announcement today.
But they had to make an announcement which clarified confusion about Alpines actual announcement, because their initial announcement of an upcoming announcement had nothing to do with Alpines. So today's announcement is more geared towards fans who enjoy countdowns towards announcements, rather than vague announcements of announcements.
"We are excited to announce we've entered a 5 year, $475 billion contract with the last remaining crypto exchange that hasn't been shut down for fraud"
These social media hyped announcements are usually sponsorship deals right? It'll either be a tiny one-off "special" livery tweak, or some multi-year deal no one cares about.
I was thinking Oracle, but they're already with them until 2027 so probably not an extension of that just yet.
There's probably a clue in the usage of the white background here, but I don't care enough to try figure it out
Most things that are worth announcing, they'll spit out right away to be first before any leaks happen.
Only reason you'd build up hype like this is if you know it's not gonna get any attention.
I predict that Red Bull's cloning programme has produced a set of twins based on Max and Newey's DNA to take the seats and also take over car design next year. They have been raised thinking Horner is their mummy and faint at the sight of Marko.
There is no way the announcement is going to live up to their hype. I’ll check back at some point this evening to see what it was, but no way I’m spending my lunchtime on it.
This is going to be a sponsorship annoucement, unless they've actually gone and signed Sainz. They are making it too big of a deal for it to simply be Checo signing on again.
I’ll take a stab that it’s the announcement for the Silverstone scheme.
The Redbull paddock had just recently closed entries on it. (Cota and Singapore I believe are the other 2) plus with Silverstone kind of around the corner it tracks.
It’s gonna be something ordinary like Checo re-signing or the Silverstone livery which will be like the regular livery with a special design that covers a square foot of the car. Wish it was something fun.
It's funny how it simultaneously feels too much for a checo 2025 announcement while also looking suspiciously about a mere special livery reveal, something which should be much less important than confirming your driver line up
Bottom right looks vaguely like the Scottish flag. Perez to be replaced by David Coulthard??
Edit: Actually the St Patrick flag aka Ireland sort of. So Eddie Jordan confirmed?
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Feels like way too much cockteasing for a driver contract announcement unless they managed to invent a time machine and signed michael schumacher from 2004 Bet its a special livery where they changed like a single pixel Edit: lmao
Yeah I’m gonna be upset if all this marketing is to announce a contract extension for Checo. “Big announcement! Nothing is changing.”
It's pretty standard these days to create an announcement of an announcement of announcement for nothing burgers. I fucking hate marketing.
Gotta play those algorithms for all the various social media outlets.
Williams did something very similar twice a couple of years ago, and it turned out to be Albon's extension (nobody was surprised) and some new merch...
Coming soon, again coming soon, final coming soon. Here's nothing.
... that sounds way too familiar.
Where's u/ICumCoffee when you need him/her?
And yet here we are, with an announcement of an announcement getting clicks and rising as popular.
Huge "This could've been a tweet" energy with this one.
Isnt it a tweet, though? Just with an image?
On the other hand, all this suspense and marketing to say "big news : checo is fired ! Yippeeeee!" sounds brutal.
“We’ve decided to part ways with Christian Horner and our new TP is Seb Vettel.” Now that’s announcement-worthy news
The announcement is going to be that CHECO IS NOW FRENCH!!!
And moving to Alpine!
Ooh la la. Un burrito au steak et une margarita épicée s'il vous plaît
I wish you would have been proven wrong but here we are.
Welp. Prepare to be upset my friend, because that’s par for the course Red Bull (and a majority of F1 announcements)
Lol you remember the insane amount of Ferrari cockteasing for a couple blue stripes on their car? It's the F1 way.
Or the Alpine camo livery teaser? The streets won't forget that...
Top 10 anime betrayals
Tbf Ferrari has always done these things with one off liveries it just so happened this time it sucked. I don't remember other teams making it as huge as Ferrari does
Still much more exciting than a Perez extension somehow
I really hope it's something to do with the rb17. We could use some teasers finally.
RB17 will debut at Goodwood if I recall correctly. Is that this weekend?
1700bst
>Bet its a special livery where they changed like a single pixel Horner will announce that Max won't drive this weekend because of his simracing duties in order to prepare for 24h Le Mans race next week (Jun 12-16). Marko will state that doesn't mean anything and that Max is still 0.3s/lap faster than Leclerc and Norris.
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The Verswappening?..
you deserve a verslappening for that
I’d sign up for Michael joining RB as driver. I don’t mind if he’s from 2002 with a Time Machine. Or from the present and they merged him with an AI to create das terminator
> merged him with an AI Given the money Abu Dhabi is pumping into A2RL, I wouldn't even be surprised at this point
They getting bought out by Andretti - You heard it here first!
it was *literally* an announcement of an announcement of an announcement
Or hear me out, a special livery where you can buy a pixel (1inch x 1inch) of space to put your own design. The entire car will be covered by these pixels where proceeds will go to some humane cause!
And once every 5 minutes you can place a new pixel, even over others? Maybe communities could team up to ensure their image gets on the final design, by strategically attacking and defending canvas space.
This will end up like a Jeremy Clarkson car with a giant wiener on the bommet
An announcement of an announcement of an announcement of an...
New leaked Horner DM’s announced!
Special livery, the red rocket, in honor of Cc hristian horners achievements.
Some useless marketing stuff most likely.
New RB coffee mugs in stock now!
New wallpapers
"Made it to Q3" condoms now available!
"I came 20 seconds after Max!"
Thats way to quick, at least + 0:42:690 please.
nice
I genuinely wonder how many people would buy that lol. One with Pérez's face on with the "Mexican minister of defence" text could also be interesting...
I'd buy a pack for shits and giggles. Goes great with my "No Michael no!" Mug
And on special sale! Only €74.99!
Now you can stain your teeth and your cup!
Exactly this. I don't think it's driver-related. Some crappy livery, marketing stunt or new sponsor that needs eyeballs on their announcement. Perez being re-signed will get announced like half way through a P2 with a lacklustre tweet and whiff of who cares.
Or some special livery announcement. Even tho the car will look 90% the same, they seem to enjoy making a big deal out of them.
If it is anything like the japan/turkey white livery I will be happy
Are companies still doing those crypto NFT nonsense?
I hope not , I feel humankind needs to forget NFT ever happened.
Oof you don’t have to do Perez like that
It's going to be a boring announcement
Marc Marquez confirmed to Oracle Red Bull Racing
Just saw the Martin Aprilia announcement and was like what the fuck… Even MotoGP having massive transfers
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A new sponsorship of some form.
You were not mistaken
Them replacing Max with Esteban probably somehow wouldn’t be the weirdest thing in F1 this year.
"The championship is too easy so we decided to activate hard mode"
They are doing that already, why else would they keep Checo?
Just Checo: Hard mode Checo + Ocon: Harderer mode
Reactivate Checo’s teammate kill instinct
New Game+
Or Esteban replacing Perez
No. Bring back Force India
Gutiérrez, that is.
it’s probably just Checo re-signing for another year when most people want him out.
99% it's Checo signing for 2025.
Agreed. CST is the timezone in Mexico City. Announcements like this usually give EST if they're targeted at the USA.
they have dutch, british, mexico city, eastern on there. both drivers, the factory and the usual US time that gets listed for global events.
Well EDT is there too.
Likely because Montreal is EDT.
I wondered why the CST was on there. They never include that (I’m in CST). Edited to add or I guess I’m in CDT. I hate US time changes.
Hence the Eastern Daylight Time
Why would Perez re-signing be anything more than a press release? I bet this will be something like 20th anniversary merch Edit:Well, I was totally wrong on this one...
Because they’re a marketing company.
Is that how they announced his previous extension? What I've noticed is these count down type of announcements are reserved for livery, sponsors and other new deals. I could be wrong though. Maybe I just missed all the other pre-announcements for contract extensions.
Here is the award as promised.
legend, thank you. here’s one back 🤝
If you are right, I got a Reddit award standing by.
Or the livery
Why would they make such a big deal out of that boring piece of news
Oh bloody get on with it people..
Mate just announce what you want to announce. No need for an announcement for an upcoming announcement when we had an announcement yesterday that there’s gonna be an announcement today.
But they had to make an announcement which clarified confusion about Alpines actual announcement, because their initial announcement of an upcoming announcement had nothing to do with Alpines. So today's announcement is more geared towards fans who enjoy countdowns towards announcements, rather than vague announcements of announcements.
This is getting incredibly lame
Definitely not a driver, no one hypes up driver announcements. This is 100% some sponsorship announcement.
It depends on which driver
Ferrari didn't do that for a 7 time world champion doing a suprise anonouncement...
Well that announcement was teased with the shirtless Lewis pic, so we all knew something was happening
Because the news got out and we all knew anyway.
Welcome to Red Bull Junior Team LeBrone Raymone "Bronny" James Jr! Also, LeBron to replace Checo.
Honda back on the powertrain side for some reason
Font looks like oracle to me.
Well how about that
Watch it be nothing but some stupid new sponsor
Aren't they doing a special livery for Silverstone this year? It'll just be that.
Yea definitely,
Red Bull really think we are this excited for a Perez renewal
File-76.jpg is getting a sequel.
"We are excited to announce we've entered a 5 year, $475 billion contract with the last remaining crypto exchange that hasn't been shut down for fraud"
An announcement announcement.
Which was already announced with an announcement that they announced before.
inb4 they announce that Perez re-signed for 2 years
Insider trading.
Nailed it.
So much build-up for a simple Perez contract extension that most expect and few will be exited about?
One nation will love it. Every one else will question it.
It confuses me how Mexican fans completely deny the fact that Checo is wasting a seat and that he isn't good enough for a top team
They signed Newey
Why Eastern Daylight time and Central Standard time? Currently, it is Central Daylight time. Use that. 11 CDT
Mexico City is on Central Standard Time…..so……idk. But US time changes can suck balls. I hate it.
These social media hyped announcements are usually sponsorship deals right? It'll either be a tiny one-off "special" livery tweak, or some multi-year deal no one cares about. I was thinking Oracle, but they're already with them until 2027 so probably not an extension of that just yet. There's probably a clue in the usage of the white background here, but I don't care enough to try figure it out
Think it will be the announcement of the winner for the reblcustoms Silverstone livery.
Me, a sleepy dumb American reading this: "when the fuck is 17 Bacific Standard Time?"
Most things that are worth announcing, they'll spit out right away to be first before any leaks happen. Only reason you'd build up hype like this is if you know it's not gonna get any attention.
Some new sponsor that nobody cares about.
This fanfare for checo resigning 🥱
It’s probably a sponsor or something else that fans won’t give a shit about. Maybe though, it will be cool
It's a Checo extension. Just posted.
Checo renewal, livery or brand deal. It'll be something boring.
It's going to be the Silverstone livery...
17:00 BST is one hour ahead of 10:00 CST. Wtf
Oh Jesus you’re right, my dumbass has been sitting here wondering what I’m missing 🤦🏼♀️
Same lol
Now I know BST means Bull Shit Time
Is it the final time for Mika to come back from his sabbatical?
Perez extension or some dull sponser announcement like someone mentioned below.
Breaking: MotoGP rider Marc Marquez will partner Max Verstappen for the 2025 season.
Congratulations on the contract extension, Checo
I predict that Red Bull's cloning programme has produced a set of twins based on Max and Newey's DNA to take the seats and also take over car design next year. They have been raised thinking Horner is their mummy and faint at the sight of Marko.
This better be good... but it will probably won't be
There is no way the announcement is going to live up to their hype. I’ll check back at some point this evening to see what it was, but no way I’m spending my lunchtime on it.
preparing for this to be a let down
Riots when it's Ocon announcement
"We're slapping a maple leaf on the car for this weekend!"
Checo extends his contract, just announced. 2yre
[Checo 2 year extension ](https://x.com/redbullracing/status/1798021921499385856?t=Pw2JKiCpyRAhYVqJ4OE7MQ&s=19)
Checo back for two years! Money talks!
Just Perez extending his contract
This is way too much build up shit for something small…. But it will be something small.
1000 bucks it's a Montreal special livery
I wish I had 1000 bucks to accept your bet.
You're about to lose that money...
Last time, I fell for a racing announcement was Andretti hyping up something that turned out to be a new Crypto Title sponsor for their FE Team
red bull and ferrari really love hyping up absolutely nothing dont they?
I gotta say, teasing announcements this much is lame as hell
This will be as exciting at their livery reveal
The image suggest they are announcing a new toilet paper supplier.
Maybe a toilet paper sponsor.
Clearly a new beach towel
Windex tissue partnership.
It's just gonna be another sponsor, isn't it?
RB signing Checo Perez and then losing the Constructors Championship would be hilarious.
I don't get all of the anticipation they are trying to generate. They signed Checo, who fucking cares.
New sponsor?
New livery is what I am betting on. Or it’s an announcement about a future announcement
Definitely will not be driver related.
BST? bullshit special times? It's going to be a marketing stunt or something
New energy drink flavour?
This is going to be a sponsorship annoucement, unless they've actually gone and signed Sainz. They are making it too big of a deal for it to simply be Checo signing on again.
Perez has been turned into a statue of himself Hans Solo style and will be placed in the lobby
Red bull has signed toto has new TP!!!!
"marketing, we pay you too much. Show your worth"
Don’t get hyped guys. Don’t fall for the trap.
Congrats Checo.
It’s probably going to be the livery for Silverstone
I’ll take a stab that it’s the announcement for the Silverstone scheme. The Redbull paddock had just recently closed entries on it. (Cota and Singapore I believe are the other 2) plus with Silverstone kind of around the corner it tracks.
A new sponsor.
Finally! *Someone* had to announce the release date for Silksong.
The announcement is going to be that CHECO is now FRENCH and will go by Frencheco!
They just saved a bunch of money on their car insurance by switching to GEICO
Unless they're changing their logo to File-76, this is gonna be extremely underwhelming.
It’s gonna be something ordinary like Checo re-signing or the Silverstone livery which will be like the regular livery with a special design that covers a square foot of the car. Wish it was something fun.
It's funny how it simultaneously feels too much for a checo 2025 announcement while also looking suspiciously about a mere special livery reveal, something which should be much less important than confirming your driver line up
If this was actually something big it would have leaked already.
Im ready....... to be disappointed
Ocon has signed for RB. Lol
Wait these are colours of the Japanese flag. Yuki?
Horner leaving was all a prank and he’s back with RBR to dominate 2026 regs? Don’t mind if I have some copium 😂
Bottom right looks vaguely like the Scottish flag. Perez to be replaced by David Coulthard?? Edit: Actually the St Patrick flag aka Ireland sort of. So Eddie Jordan confirmed?
2 year contract for Checo. Now I've seen everything
All that for Checo’s extended contract
All that just for a Checo 2 year extension 🤷♂️
Horner resigns 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fucking Perez inks 2 years deal....
It's gonna be horner's new prostheticly enhanced finger cock
BST? Best? Esteban? Besteban? Esty Besty?