It’s no secret that Red Bull’s on-track efforts this year have been a touch disappointing. Headlines such as “Red Bull ‘will quit F1’ over engines“ tell their own story.

However, the Infiniti Red Bull team continues to benefit from its partnership with Nissan (Infiniti is Nissan’s luxury car brand), which provides a comprehensive fleet of vans and pick-ups for the team.

Red Bull’s commercial vehicle partnership with Nissan is now in its fourth year, and this year the Japanese manufacturer will provide around 80 vans and pick-ups for Red Bull to support their operations during the European Grand Prix season.

In total, Nissan will supply around 80 light commercial vehicles from its class leading range, including the all-electric Nissan e-NV200 and the standard NV200, as well as the Nissan NV350 and the larger Nissan NV400.

According to Christian Horner, Team Principal, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, the Nissan LCV partnership brings notable benefits to the team:

“This partnership with Nissan LCV has brought significant benefits to our team and demonstrated the value of working with the right commercial vehicle partner. One of the biggest challenges we face is managing the logistically complex operations of transporting people and equipment, and we are delighted to continue working with Nissan LCV in 2015.”

I suspect Mr Horner is hoping some of Nissan’s off-track success — for example with the e-NV200 — soon starts to rub-off on his Renault-powered racing cars…