Honda will be exit from the Formula 1 at the end of this season after last six years battle. The special livery originally planned for this upcoming weekend in Japan, but the race was cancelled and replaced with the Turkish Grand Prix.

Red Bull and their sister-team Toro Rosso have designed a unique livery for engine partner at Turkish GP. Together, the partnership has yielded 35 podiums and 12 victories, and could yet see Max Verstappen clinch a F1 title this season.

“The livery chosen for our cars pays homage to Honda’s remarkable F1 journey, and hopefully, we can give fans another victory in those legendary colours this weekend,” said Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner.

“Red Bull said to Honda ‘let’s do something special together for Suzuka’ – that’s where it all began,” Honda’s F1 Managing Director Masashi Yamamoto explained to the official Honda website.

“Then one of the ideas was to make a special race suit, inspired by the RA272.

“I’ve actually made the race suits before for Honda drivers – all white with a red line – that Jenson Button wore during one of our Honda Thanks Days. So the first idea was the race suits for Suzuka.

“Then the conversation went on a bit more and we said ‘Why don’t we do it for the car as well?’ So a livery inspired by RA272.

“The design was developed together, Red Bull came up with the basis design and we suggested small details like the red circle at the front that’s like the Japanese flag, and the retro numbers.”

The livery of Red Bull’s RB16B, along with AlphaTauri’s AT02, features ‘arigato’, which translates as ‘thank you’, written in Japanese characters.

“Arigato is for Red Bull of course, for Christian [Horner], Helmut [Marko], Franz [Tost] and all four drivers across the two teams,” said Yamamoto.

“But the biggest thank you is to the fans actually, because they have been supporting us for a long time. It is our last season but we wanted to take this opportunity to send that message to the fans.”