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Energy drink maker Red Bull said Monday it is investigating Christian Horner, the team principal of its championship Formula One team, over an allegation of misconduct toward a team employee.
An otherwise quiet off-season for Formula 1 was shaken up by the unexpected departure of Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, hitherto the third-longest-serving boss in the sport behind Red Bull’s Christian Horner and Mercedes-AMG’s Toto Wolff.
We haven’t heard much in the way of tactical updates from Ford and Red Bull since the announcement that Ford would be partnering with Red Bull Powertrains to develop a new power unit together for the 2026 Formula One season. That changes today with a small tidbit of official information.
► RB17 will use V8-hybrid with 1100bhp ► Red Bull says just 50 will be built, deliveries in 2025 ► £5million plus taxes
Red Bull Advanced Technologies CEO Christian Horner has revealed exciting new information regarding the RB17 hypercar that was announced in 2022, including that the special-edition track car will debut this year rather than next and what Formula 1-inspired technologies will characterize its performance.
In 2022, Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT) announced the development of a new hypercar, the RB17. RBAT is the commercial technology arm for the Oracle Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team — akin to Williams Advanced Engineering, it's a place to market technologies developed for F1 and to employ engineers cut from the F1 team when the sport introduced a cost cap. The track-only car's rough specs in the announcement were a twin-turbocharged V8 hybrid powertrain making 1,250 horsepower, bodywork incorporating every useful F1 performance aid both legal and banned, a price of five million pounds ($6.4M U.S.) plus taxes and options, and a market launch in 2025. Evo magazine, via an interview Red Bull team principal Christian Horner gave to Sky Sports, revealed the debut's been pushed up to this year instead of 2025 and provided a few more details on what's inbound.
Former McLaren Formula 1 boss Ron Dennis has been knighted in King Charles III’s latest New Years Honours list.
The Oracle Red Bull Racing pit crew has achieved one of the most impressive feats of teamwork we've ever seen by servicing an RB14 in total darkness. In other words, the crew could not see the car during the pit stop. They were literally operating blind, and yet they were still quicker than most F1 teams could complete the same in race conditions in broad daylight, completing the pit stop in total darkness in just 2.84 seconds — only a second slower than the outright record for the fastest stop.