🗣️'For the prospects of Red Bull, we’ve outgrown being a customer.' Horner has suggested his team should be 'grateful' to Honda for giving the F1 champions the push to progress.
Christian Horner says Red Bull would “absolutely not” have established its own Formula 1 engine programme had it known Honda would return to the championship for 2026.Honda announced its F1 exit in 2021 but agreed a deal to continue to supply its power unit for chassis partner Red Bull until the end of 2025 and the demise of the current engine regulations.
Horner added that if Red Bull had known Honda was keen to return, it never would have embarked on its own engine programme even if it had admittedly “outgrown” being a"customer".“For the prospects of Red Bull, we’ve outgrown being a customer. “In many respects, we should be grateful for them giving us that push to create our own engine facility," he continued.
Red Bull and Honda did re-enter talks in late 2022 over a possible collaboration for the 2026 engine rules, which ditch the complex and expensive Motor Generator Unit – Heat .
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