Horner welcomes Mercedes staff: "Achieving success with best and brightest talents

Red Bull Racing on Thursday appointed five new staff members to its new engine project. Remarkably, all five new staff members, as well as Technical Director, Ben Hodgkinson, come from Mercedes. Christian Horner is delighted with the move.

“Red Bull’s mission to bring all aspects of its Formula One operations in-house through Red Bull Powertrains is an enormously exciting undertaking but also an extremely demanding one, and we know that success will only be achieved by bringing in the best and brightest talent, by providing them with the right tools and by creating the right environment in which they can thrive," Horner revealed in the press release.

"Today’s key leadership team appointments demonstrate our strong commitment to those goals and we certainly benefit from our campus being located in the UK where we have access to a huge wealth of engineering talent. Working with our new Technical Director, Ben Hodgkinson, and alongside key personnel retained from Honda Racing Development, each of the senior personnel announced today bring a wealth of experience, expertise and innovativity to the Red Bull Powertrains programme and provide us with the strongest possible technical platform for the future," concludes the Red Bull Racing team boss.