Red Bull at 400 races: How five numbers illustrate their Formula One dominance

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Red Bull is on the brink of a big moment in Formula One history. This weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola will be the 400th time a Red Bull car has graced the grid.

F1, as much a race against the clock as it is a contest between humans and their machines, is intrinsically linked with cold, hard numbers and statistics. These also help to clearly plot a team’s place in the sport’s history.

But for the dint of the 2005 United States Grand Prix fiasco — where only cars from three teams took the start after practice tire failures for those squads running Michelin tires could not be adequately addressed for a full race to be contested — Red Bull would have hit the 400 starts milestone at the recent Miami race. This is the only occasion since the team’s debut in Australia in 2005 that neither of its cars has taken a grand prix start.

While you can expect to see dedicated branding displayed on the team’s kit and garage at Imola, where Red Bull is set to unleash further car upgrades to aid its bid to overhaul McLaren at the top of the 2025 standings, here’s how the team’s F1 sporting legacy currently sits within the championship’s stats-packed record books.

(Nearly) 400 grands prix started

Assuming either Max Verstappen or Yuki Tsunoda starts at Imola on Sunday (which they surely will, given F1’s modern driver safety and car reliability standards), Red Bull will sit joint seventh on F1’s all-time team start list.

This is level with the works entries from its former engine supplier, Renault. The Alpine team, which will continue as Renault’s effective works effort until the end of the current season, will achieve 100 entries of its own at this season’s Canadian race, following its 2021 rebrand.

Only Williams, McLaren, Ferrari, Sauber (through all its guises), and the defunct operations of Lotus and Tyrrell remain ahead. Ferrari leads the record with 1,104 grand prix races started. By the end of the 2026 campaign, Red Bull will have surpassed Tyrrell’s 430 race starts (effectively the modern-day Mercedes squad when tracing back the history of that team’s F1 entry rights) and will sit firmly in sixth place on the all-time list.

Red Bull is second all-time in points scored

As Ferrari can trace its F1 history almost all the way back through the championship’s 75-year timeline, it leads all the major team records — starts (1104), titles (31, with drivers’ and constructors’ combined), wins (248), and poles (253). The long histories of McLaren and Williams, along with Mercedes’ impressive hit rate from its two periods of F1 works entry, mean Red Bull regularly features just shy of the podium places on such lists.

However, one area where it does not is F1’s record points hauls for teams. Here, Ferrari still leads with 10,418, but Red Bull is second with 7,492. This is mainly due to the changes in how points have been allocated among the leading drivers in each race over the years, compared to the other major F1 success statistics, which have remained consistent.

Red Bull’s first F1 win only came at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix — a wild, wet-weather contest won by Sebastian Vettel — just before F1’s points system was substantially revised to award race winners 25 points, up from 10. As 2009 began, Red Bull’s points total stood at 104.5, and with its subsequent 117 race wins, its points total ballooned past Williams and McLaren due to the points increase. This stretch encompasses all eight Red Bull drivers and its six constructors’ crowns to date.

Two world champions from 32 Red Bull-backed F1 racers

Since its 2005 entry, four other teams have shared all the subsequent F1 world titles (this groups Brawn’s 2009 crowns with the Mercedes team it subsequently became) with Red Bull. This puts it in an exclusive club, but doesn’t cover the squad’s other tangible impact on F1’s history.

One year into Red Bull’s F1 stint, it bought Minardi and rebranded it as Scuderia Toro Rosso (or ‘Red Bull Racing Team’ in Italian, with the junior squad remaining based in northern Italy). This provided Red Bull a unique political advantage when voting on F1 rules — something team management often seeks to downplay — but also a vehicle for advancing junior drivers more quickly through the single-seater ranks compared to other teams.

In total, at the main Red Bull team and what is today called Racing Bulls, 32 Red Bull-backed drivers have raced in F1 using its machinery. Of that total, two have claimed the world title: Vettel and Verstappen (four apiece in two periods: 2010-2013 and 2021-present), which amounts to a return of 6.25 percent. Red Bull has clinched its six constructors’ crowns in the same two distinct eras, with its missing two ‘doubles’ (2021 and 2024) highlighting how it has struggled to have its second driver replicate Verstappen’s points hauls during his dominant era.

Verstappen clinched his fourth successive world title at the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix (Mark Thompson / Getty Images)

Red Bull is fourth all-time in F1 race wins, but isn’t far off third

Verstappen’s recent victory at Suzuka is, so far in 2025, notable for being the only non-McLaren win of the current campaign. However, the fact that Red Bull was only humbled once all year in 2023 highlights how significantly the pecking order has changed in a short period from what Red Bull team boss Christian Horner referred to as “halcyon days.”

Horner has been Red Bull team principal across its entire F1 entry history, although he came under severe pressure regarding his position after the scandal over his behavior towards a female employee was revealed in 2024.

That 2025 Japanese Grand Prix win also makes Suzuka the track where Red Bull has achieved the most success in the F1 calendar, as it was the team’s eighth triumph there. It can match that total at Monaco, Interlagos and Yas Marina if it also wins at these venues in 2025. Vettel and Red Bull hold a unique record of winning every Indian Grand Prix during that race’s brief stint on the calendar from 2011 to 2013.

Overall, Red Bull ranks fourth on F1’s all-time win list with 123 wins — six behind Mercedes at 129 and 71 behind McLaren’s 194. Ferrari leads with 248 wins.

Mercedes has it beat in one key metric

One thing that stands out from Red Bull’s F1 haul to this point is just how successful it has been in the 20-year stretch since it took over the ailing Jaguar team and became a full constructor.

Its win percentage record stands at 30.8 percent from 399 starts so far, which is well ahead of Ferrari at 22.5 percent and McLaren at 19.9 percent from 976 race starts (the trio occupying positions four to six in this section of the F1 record books). The single Brawn season in 2009 holds the top spot with a 47.1 percent win record from that team’s 17 races, but when considering only teams that have entered over 30 races, Red Bull rises to second all-time.

Mercedes, however, is well clear with a 39.9 percent victory rate from 323 starts. The fact that the team had only participated in 12 races prior to 2010 highlights how, in this F1 era and within a relatively compressed segment of the world championship’s 75-year history, only Mercedes and Red Bull have attained true superteam status.

(Top photo: Peter Fox/Getty Images)

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