Red Bull to follow Ferrari from 2025: 'That shows our long term intentions'

Red Bull has strengthened its engine line-up with the arrival of Ben Hodgkinson. The former Mercedes employee will lead the engine project at Red Bull, where he will aim for the same exclusivity as Ferrari.

At the end of 2021 Red Bull will take over the engines from Honda and a complete factory will be built at Milton Keynes to make it happen. From 2025 onwards there will be new engine regulations and where everyone assumed that Red Bull would be looking for a new partner, the team seems to want to develop that engine itself.

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Indeed, Hodgkinson has been recruited to lead that project. He is to help develop an engine that will meet the yet-to-be-drafted regulations for the new engine from 2025. ''He comes to this hugely exciting project as a proven race winner and as an innovator capable of leading a like-minded team of highly skilled engineers. His appointment signals our long-term intent and we will support him and his team with every available resource required in order to succeed,'' said Christian Horner in his column for Red Bull.

''Other than Ferrari, we will be the only F1 team who has an engine department fully integrated into the team on the same campus which is hugely important to us. This is a huge undertaking but we are approaching it with the same methodology that has made us successful on the chassis side. We will recruit key talent in order to build the strongest group of minds possible and provide those people with the facilities and support they need to succeed'', concludes the Briton.