Listening to the Radio: With the press of a button on the steering wheel, drivers communicate with their team.A Championship Run: Mercedes had many problems last season with its racecar, but after a redesign the team hopes it can challenge for a title.Rookies Ready to Go: Logan Sargeant with Williams Nyck de Vries with AlphaTauri and Oscar Piastri with McLaren are embarking on their first seasons.(A power unit is a hybrid, which includes several components, including an internal combustion engine, electrical motors and a turbocharger.) Red Bull, which will also supply power units to AlphaTauri and have the capacity to supply two other teams, was forced to produce its own unit because two years ago, Honda, the team’s power-unit supplier, stunned Red Bull by announcing it would leave Formula 1 at the end of 2021. “Here we are, as a subsidiary of an energy drinks manufacturer, we’ve taken on the world in terms of producing chassis, and we’ve managed to succeed in that.” “Now suddenly, there’s this huge new chapter of becoming a power-unit manufacturer and producing the first ever Red Bull engine.” “The engine had always been an Achilles’ heel in certain respects for us in being reliant on a supplier,” Christian Horner, the team principal, said in an interview in September.
4, Red Bull turned a significant page in its history.Īfter years of being beholden to different power-unit suppliers, Red Bull fired up its own prototype unit for the first time, which the team will race by 2026.
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