Red Bull, a big problem in terms of the future: Ferrari can hope

Red Bull dominates the field in this historic round of F1, but Christian Horner highlights the problem. This is how it is.

The domain that Red Bull set in the era of ground impact has few equals in the history of F1, which however has been characterized by periods where the same team or driver always won. However, Such a situation has appeared very rarely, with Max Verstappen who can easily win every raceeven starting in the middle of the field, with a quality that is an embarrassment to the opponents.

The Ferrari it has certainly made a big step compared to last year, but if we take the double in Melbourne, favored by the withdrawal of the three-time world champion, we realize that the Red team had a gap of 20 seconds in the stages of Sakhir, Jeddah and Suzuka.It is not an easy gap to heal.

The feeling is that with this technical cycle Red Bull can continue to dominate even in 2025, the last year of these regulations, before the revolution that we will experience in 2026. Well, for the Milton Keynes team. Next year will be the last year with Honda power unitsto which they will move Aston Martinand the hopes of the competition are all pinned on the flop on the engines that will be made at home by the world champions.

Red Bull, ansia per le power unit 2026

The Red Bull has signed an agreement with Ford on the front power unit from 2026, but not everything is as it seems. Indeed, The Detroit company will make only a small contribution to the hybrid segment as well as hanging its stickers on the seats of the Milton Keynes team, but it will certainly not be responsible for building the flying units at all.

This work will be released by the Powertrains department of the Christian Horner teamestablished a few years ago and based on the best engine engineers snatched from the competition, among them, a large part of those who developed Mercedes in the golden years of the people of Toto Wolff, who are now going through a very bad period.

Basically, Red Bull will produce its own engines, and this could be a big risk. Horner himself also knows this, and he talked about it during an interview with “Automatic games“. The head of the team believes that the available time is very limited to create strong and reliable units, but at least for now, all the set goals have been achieved.

Here are his words: “If I’m honest, two years of time to catch up with manufacturers who have been making engines for decades is very little, but for now, we are achieving all the goals we set for ourselves. Inside the power unit division everything works and works at full capacity, from powerful benches to simulation. I think it’s obvious that this is a race against time, a growth curve that we should balance it is strange“.