Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes there are a number of crucial factors that will determine the outcome of this year s F1 title battle.
‘Hamilton wouldn’t be P2 without Russell’s crash’
Date published:
April 23 2021
Helmut Marko stopped just short of telling Toto Wolff to thank George Russell for crashing at Imola as that helped Lewis Hamilton finish P2.
Russell was lambasted by Mercedes motorsport boss Wolff after punting Valtteri Bottas into retirement at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
The high-speed crash came just moments after Hamilton, trying to chase down Max Verstappen for the lead, went off into the gravel.
With his W12’s front wing kissing the barrier, Hamilton fell down to ninth place, went a lap down on Verstappen, and still needed to head to the pits for repairs.
Motor racing-Red Bull hire Mercedes engine expert for own F1 project Reuters 3 hrs ago
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) - Red Bull have hired Ben Hodgkinson from Formula One rivals Mercedes as technical director of their own engine company, the team said on Friday.
Hodgkinson is head of mechanical engineering at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP), the company whose engines have dominated Formula One since the start of the V6 turbo hybrid era in 2014.
Red Bull said Hodgkinson would be heading up all technical aspects with a key focus on developing Red Bull’s inaugural power unit, to comply with the new Formula One regulations currently planned for 2025.
Only ‘best talent’ interests Red Bull in engine plans
Date published:
April 23 2021
Red Bull want only the “best” working for them in their new Red Bull Powertrains division, which will power next year’s RB17.
With Honda announcing last year that the 2021 season would be their last in Formula 1, Red Bull and its junior team AlphaTauri were left scampering for a new engine supplier.
In the end they decided to do it themselves.
Creating ‘Red Bull Powertrains’, the engine division will take charge of Honda’s power units in 2022 and run them as their own.
“We will be applying exactly the same philosophy that we did to the chassis side,” Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told Motorsport.com in an exclusive interview.
KartCMP1: “Uh oh”s and “Way to go”s from Imola
Difficult driving conditions combined with the unforgiving Imola circuit helped produce a memorable Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Let’s have a look.
Max Verstappen – “Way To Go”
Gold star. Max Verstappen launched better than both drivers ahead of him on the grid and forced the position from Lewis Hamilton into Turn 2 (we’ve all been calling it Turn 1). It’s important to note that Formula 1 continues to race with all wheels very much ‘open’, thus the will involved to bang wheels as Verstappen and Hamilton did with both drivers refusing to concede is indicative that the gloves are fully off. Verstappen went on to shutdown an overcut attempt by Mercedes despite an alarming closing rate by Hamilton several laps prior to the first stop. It was total perfection from Verstappen especially when juxtaposed with the quantity of mistakes that were made throughout the race by others. Any rating less than a perfect 10 is abso