NFT rides shotgun as Red Bull Racing closes out F1 season

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Cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise corporations proceed to characteristic on the earth of Method 1, with a nonfungible token (NFT) making its mark on Crimson Bull Racing’s automobiles to shut out the 2022 calendar.

Crimson Bull Racing dominated the F1 season, topping the constructors’ standings, whereas Max Verstappen closed out the drivers’ standings for a second consecutive season. With the curtain closing on 2022’s race schedule in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 20, the staff’s vehicles will characteristic an NFT on their livery in what’s being referred to as a primary in F1.

Crimson Bull Racing struck a take care of cryptocurrency change ByBit as a Principal Workforce Accomplice in February 2022, one in every of a handful of cryptocurrency corporations sponsoring groups in Method 1. The change’s brand will characteristic alongside Lei the Lightning Azuki, an NFT paintings and character from the anime-inspired Azuki assortment.

The unique Lei Azuki NFT is one in every of 10,000 NFTs from the gathering. The #8494 is at the moment listed on OpenSea and is valued at round 9 Wrapped Ether (wETH), or $11,100 on the time of writing.

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Crimson Bull Racing’s Lei the Lightning Azuki might be a restricted version model of #8494 and is about to be minted on the Tezos blockchain and obtainable by way of ByBit’s NFT market.

An announcement from Crimson Bulls Racing’s staff principal, Christian Horner, highlighted the continuing exploration of Web3 use instances by way of the partnership within the sporting world

“In some ways, it’s been a watch opener for us to the huge alternatives Web3 has to supply. This distinctive challenge is the proper mixture of creativity, innovation, and fervour which matches our ethos on the observe.”

The game of Method 1 has been a giant proponent of the cryptocurrency area. Crypto.com signed a serious sponsorship deal in June 2021 as its official cryptocurrency and NFT associate. Fan token blockchain platform Chiliz has additionally partnered with a handful of F1 groups over the previous two years.

McLaren grew to become the primary staff to hold out a ‘livery takeover’ with their important sponsor OKX in 2022. Cointelegraph had an unique interview with Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo in regards to the partnership at Token2049 in Singapore in October 2022.

Method 1 additionally filed quite a lot of trademark purposes in October 2022 that recommend that the group is trying to take full management of the mental property within the wider cryptocurrency area.