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

Red Bull is dominating the scene in this historical phase of F1, but Christian Horner highlights a problem. Here’s what it is.

The domain that the Red Bull imposed in the ground effect era has few equals in the history of F1, which has however been characterized by periods in which the same team or driver always won. However, A similar scenario has rarely emerged, with Max Verstappen who can easily win every raceeven starting from the middle of the field, with a superiority that is embarrassing for the opponents.

There Ferrari has certainly made giant strides compared to last year, but if we take away 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 Sakhir, Jeddah and Suzuka stagesnot exactly an easy gap to recover.

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 unitswhich they will then move to Aston Martinand the competition’s hope is all pinned on a flop on the engines that will be made at home by the world champions.

Red Bull, anxious about the 2026 power units

There Red Bull has signed an agreement with the Ford on the power unit front starting from 2026, but not everything is as it seems. Indeed, the Detroit company will only make a small contribution to the hybrid part in addition to hanging its stickers on the single-seaters of the Milton Keynes team, but it will certainly not be responsible for completely building the propulsion units.

This task he will be acquitted by the Powertrains department of Christian Horner’s teamfounded a few years ago and based on the best engine engineers snatched from the competition, among which, a large part of those who had made the Mercedes in the golden years of the men of Toto Wolff, who are now experiencing a very negative period.

In essence, Red Bull will produce its own engines, and this could be a big risk. Horner himself is also aware of this, and spoke about it during an interview with “Autosport“. The team principal believes that the time available is very limited to create powerful and reliable power units, but at least for now, all the set targets 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 indeed, but at the moment, we are achieving all the objectives we have set ourselves. Inside the power unit division everything is functional and operational at full capacity, from the dynamic benches to the simulation. I think it’s obvious that this is a race against time, the growth curve that we have to equalize is remarkable“.