The Red Bull RB14 was a Formula One racing car designed and constructed by Red Bull Racing to compete during the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship. The car was driven by Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen,[1] and made its competitive début at the 2018 Australian Grand Prix. Like its predecessors the RB12 and RB13, the RB14 used a Renault engine badged as a TAG Heuer.
The RB14 was the last car built by Red Bull Racing to use customer Renault engines as the team switched to Honda power in .[2]
Following difficult pre-season tests in and in which the team attended the first tests with older-model cars, Red Bull announced that they would launch the RB14 earlier in the year than they had with the RB12 and RB13.[3] Where previous cars had been delayed to allow the team more time to develop the chassis in their factory, the team brought the launch of the RB14 forward to gather more on-track data. Team principal Christian Horner justified the decision by revealing that analysis of the team's performances in 2016 and 2017 showed that while the chassis were competitive by the end of the season, the decision to delay their respective launches had resulted in an uncompetitive car at the start of the championship.
The RB14 made its public début in February. Daniel Ricciardo completed a shakedown of the car at the Silverstone Circuit one week before pre-season testing began.[4]
Ricciardo and Verstappen competed in the United States Grand Prix wearing special cowboy-styled race suits as a special tribute to Austin and Texas.[5]
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | Grands Prix | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | BHR | CHN | AZE | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | AUT | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | RUS | JPN | USA | MEX | BRA | ABU | |||||||
| Aston Martin Red Bull Racing | TAG Heuer F1-2018 |  Daniel Ricciardo | 4 | Ret | 1 | Ret | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | 6 | 6 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 4 | 4 | 419 | 3rd | ||
| Max Verstappen | 6 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | Ret | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||