With Honda’s exit from Formula 1, set for the end of 2021, the Red Bull decided to take over the Japanese power units and work on them for the following seasons, setting up a motor sector dedicated that can allow it to keep pace with giants such as Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault. The leaders of the Anglo-Austrian team therefore decided to develop the engines themselves and in setting up the work they decided to keep every possibility open in view of the new power units scheduled for 2026, given that there are rumors of a possible involvement of Porsche . First of all Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, as you know, tried to do shopping at Mercedes, bringing Milton Keynes a total of ben 45 engineers of the Silver Arrows, among which Ben Hodgkinson (who became technical director of the PU department), Steve Blewett (production manager of PU), Omid Mostaghimi (electronics and ERS manager), Pip Clode (ERS mechanical design), Anton Mayo (ICE Design Manager) and Steve Brodie (ICE Operations Group Leader).
THE new hires at Red Bull Powertrain touch the considerable figure of 170 units – as reported by the Germans of Auto, Motor und Sport – and will mainly deal with the development of the engines, given that Honda will be responsible for the assembly, as between the parties there was only the transfer of the right of use and not of the intellectual property of the power unit. However, according to Michael Schmidt, the situation remains very fluid, because “some experts report that Honda is secretly sorry about the exit from F1 and that it wants to maintain a lively link with the category through Red Bull. The regulations for the new generation of power units could in fact be very interesting for Honda, considering the budget limits and the restrictions on the test bench, which would go in the direction of economic savings “.
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