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The Austrian stable, and its sister team, AlphaTauri, found themselves in a difficult position after Honda announced last Friday. At the end of the 2021 season, he will retire from the racing circus.
Under current rules, if a barn cannot find an engine supplier on its own, the manufacturer with the fewest associated equipment must provide resources; this is in this case it would be Renault.
The French have already indicated of course they comply with the rulesk and provide a motor to Red Bull if necessary, but energy drink makers are exploring all options.
Head of Mercedes Motorsport, Toto Wolff ruled out on Friday the possibility of Red Bull using its resources from 2022Mattia Binotto, Ferrari team boss, on the other hand, said they were open to the question.
Christian Horner betrayed at the Nürburgring, they must make a decision before the end of the year.
“Well, there are no new engine manufacturers lined up in Formula One,” Horner said Friday.
“I think so, Toto [Wolff] in a previous press conference, he made it quite clear that Mercedes was not willing to supply an engine, which limited the opportunities for the two current suppliers.
“We need to see Renault as a potential supplier for the future. Renault is now a different organization than the last time the engine was delivered to us. They have a new president [Luca de Meo személyében – a szerk.]that he seems passionate about Formula One, which is good to see.
“And Formula One also needs this from an organization, otherwise it will be impossible to achieve success in this sport. As I said before, we have to analyze all the possibilities. “
Red Bull ban in 2006 has used Ferrari engines for a season, while AlphaTauri, previously known as Toro Rosso, used aggregates from the Italian manufacturer between 2007 and 2013.
Horner explained that their situation is special because they want a motor partner for themselves. that can help them become champions.
“A team like Red Bull is not a standard partner team. The team has extremely big goals, they want to win, they want to fight for championship titles, they want to win them ”.
“So we have to take the time to consider the options available to us to finalize things by the end of the season, but mainly by the end of the year.”
By the way, the possibility arose that Red Bull will take over Honda’s existing infrastructureand build your own engine. While this would be a very expensive solution, Horner doesn’t rule it out either.
“We have to consider all the options and then obviously we have to decide.”
“We have to be open to all possibilities. We’ve seen a few times in this sport that sometimes the most unexpected can happen, and our job is to find what is the most competitive way for us in 2022. “
“We have time, Honda has given us time. If this decision had been made next spring or next fall, it would have been a much worse scenario. “
