Christian Horner on developing new powertrains, Michael Masi's exit and a potential partnership with Porsche
“The past 12 months have been absolutely flat out in building the facility and recruiting the best talent,” he says. Many of the new arrivals, including technical director Ben Hodgkinson, have been poached directly from arch-rivalRenault“[Finalising] the regulations was key and the homologation freeze was fundamental,” says Horner, “plus Honda gave us a soft landing. We have a Honda product running under licence, effectively.
So what else will Red Bull Powertrains work on? “Nothing. It’s purely F1. We could accommodate a track car, but this is the first facility like this since Mercedes HPP, set up bespoke to do F1 engines. It’s the next chapter for the team and business.”Bear in mind that each F1 car is limited to the use of just three internal combustion engines per season. The staff-to-product ratio in F1 is astonishing.
But if Red Bull is to be responsible for the design and building of powertrains, what would Porsche do? What would a car maker with its own proud sporting record get out of such a partnership?
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