Cowell on Red Bull engine list: ''It would be a good option''

Red Bull will take over Honda's engines from 2022 onwards and will have to produce them themselves until 2024. In Milton Keynes they are working hard on a new factory, and the name of Andy Cowell keeps hanging around this new project.

It all took a while for Red Bull to get the green light. In 2020, Honda announced that it would stop the Formula 1 project at the end of 2021, and so Red Bull had to look for a solution. Red Bull wanted to do it themselves, but had to wait a long time for all teams to agree that freezing engine development would be as early as 2022.

Despite that delay, Helmut Marko assumes the converted factory will be ready by the summer. ''We are assuming that the hardware will be ready in the spring or summer of next year. At the moment we are already receiving a lot of good reports about the factory and the whole structure will be set up there,'' Helmut Marko said to Motorsport-magazin.com.

The question, however, is who will lead this project? Andy Cowell quit at Mercedes and could start working at Red Bull Racing in early 2021, but Cowell instead indicated he wanted to look for something outside of Formula One. ''We are always talking. It would be a good option, but it's not on the table at the moment'', Marko remains cryptic.