Racing Point has confir💟med the launch date for its 2020 Formula 1 car ahead of the new season.
Racing Point will unveil its new car🐭, the RP20, at an event in Mondsee, Austria, on Februarꦰy 17, two days before the start of pre-season testing.
The launch event will ♔take pla🔴ce at the Austrian base of BWT, one of the team's principal sponsors.
— SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team (@RacingPointF1)
It marks the second year in a row Racing Point has elected to do a full car launch, having previously unveiled its 2019 car in Canada to mark the start of its new branඣd following the takeovꦫer of Force India. Force India had traditionally rolled its car out at the start of pre-season testing.
Racing Point will enter the 2020 season 𝓡looking to build on its seventh-place finish in last year's constructors' championship as the team bounced back from the difficulties faced in tཧhe final stages of its Force India ownership in 2018.
Sergio Perez managed to lead the team by scoring 52 of its 73 points, recording a highest fiꦬnish of sixth in Azerbaijan and Belgium. Teammate Lance Stroll scored th𓃲e remaining 21 points, but bagged the team's best result of the year with fourth at the German Grand Prix.
Racing Point is the sixth team to conf♌irm its launch plans, and i✃s currently has the latest reveal date, taking place just two days before the start of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Tౠhe new F1 season ꦺbegins on March 15 with the Australian Grand Prix.