{"id":181730,"date":"2023-11-08T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=181730"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:22:30","slug":"scuderia-alphatauri-formula-1-bandai-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/11\/08\/scuderia-alphatauri-formula-1-bandai-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Team Scuderia AlphaTauri Teams Up With Bandai GUNDAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Formula 1 team Scuderia AlphaTauri has announced a new partnership with Bandai Namco, bringing the GUNDAM franchise to the Formula 1 grid for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix on 19 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formula 1 has been steadily establishing itself as one of the hottest sports at the moment, inducting a new wave of fans thanks to its hit Netflix documentary series <em>Formula 1: Drive to Survive<\/em> over the past few years. More recently, apparel partners PUMA announced <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/10\/25\/aap-rocky-named-as-pumas-new-creative-director-for-f1-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"A$AP ROCKY\">A$AP ROCKY<\/a> as it&#8217;s new Creative Director for its F1 division, which will see the rapper apply his creative touch for future co-branded apparel releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this might be a surprising (although welcoming) collaboration, it&#8217;s also a match made in heaven for the duo. Firstly, Scuderia AlphaTauri is home to the only Japanese driver on the grid currently, Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, Formula 1 is widely known as &#8220;the pinnacle of motorsport&#8221;, while the GUNDAM franchise is beloved as the height of human technology, and <em>mecha<\/em> robots. The recurring themes of heroism within the franchise mirrors that of the real-life challenges F1 drivers face every single race. Tsunoda himself explains it best in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PvUJumqZYoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" title=\"promotional video\">promotional video<\/a>: &#8220;<em>this is where technology and innovation bring the impossible to life.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighting this collaboration between Scuderia AlphaTauri and Bandai Namco&#8217;s is a RX-78-2 GUNDAM Perfect-Grade Unleashed model figure, draped in the F1 team&#8217;s colors and decals. The drivers of the team, the aforementioned Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo, will also don GUNDAM-inspired racing suits for the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Their cars&#8217; headrests will also feature decals from the RX-78-2 GUNDAM and XVX-016 GUNDAM Aerial, which is part of the franchise&#8217; latest series, <em>Mobile Suit GUNDAM: The Witch from Mercury.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, race-goers have the opportunity to visit two GUNDAM BASE POP-UP Stores, Elara by Hilton and The Park by MGM. Nearly ten-foot tall GUNDAM statues will also be on display around the team&#8217;s facilities over the race weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take an official look at the Scuderia AlphaTauri x Bandai Namco GUNDAM RX-78-2 GUNDAM via the top slider above. Unfortunately, according to the team&#8217;s press release, this magnificent work of art will only be for display, but be sure to check out the GUNDAM BASE POP-UP Stores for other goodies.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In other news, take a first look at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/11\/06\/a-new-human-made-kaws-collection-is-said-to-arrive-in-november\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HUMAN MADE x KAWS collaboration<\/a>. You can find other GUNDAM model figures and collectibles via the banner below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunkappen.page.link\/7RFL_Streetwear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151766\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/15110334\/Streetwear.webp\" alt=\"Streetwear on the SNKRDUNK App\" width=\"970\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 team Scuderia AlphaTauri has announced a new partnership with Bandai Namco, bringing the GUNDAM franchise to the Formula 1 grid for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix on 19 November. Formula 1 has been steadily establishing itself as one of the hottest sports at the moment, inducting a new wave of fans thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":181773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,32,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-latest-news","category-news","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181730"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184052,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181730\/revisions\/184052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}