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Red Bull falling behind: 'Trying desperately to catch up'
- GPblog.com
Red Bull Racing has recovered from its post-2013 downturn and is once again the dominant force in Formula 1 with Max Verstappen. Team boss Christian Horner says the team is desperate to make up the engine backlog. After all, Red Bull does not want to fall back again in 2026.
After four years from 2011 to 2013, Red Bull scored both the constructors' title and the drivers' title with Sebastian Vettel. It was then Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg that took over the hegemony in Formula 1. Now that dominance has returned to Red Bull, Horner wants to keep it and stay on top in 2026 with the new engine.
Red Bull 'desperately' playing catch-up
Red Bull Powertrains seems to be making good progress, but it is a virtually new part of the Red Bull team. So it needs to catch up with rivals Ferrari and Mercedes. Horner said at the race team's Talking Bull Podcast, “We’re building a new engine for 2026 as well, and we’re desperately trying to catch up."
“We’re building it here [in Milton Keynes, at the racing team’s base], it’s a start-up new business that we’ve welcomed 400 new members to the team in, and we started from scratch." Horner commented briefly on the progress being made in the last year: “We had our first V6 engine running about nine months ago, and we’re building on that. There’s never a dull moment.”