Max Verstappen received plaudits from Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, for the award he received in the Netherlands on Thursday. Verstappen won the world title last year in his sixth Formula 1 season at the age of just 24 years, dramatically defeating Sir Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi. Last season, the Dutch Grand Prix
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Red Bull Racing’s heavily rumoured 2026 partnership with German manufacturer Porsche has stalled, with the VW-owned company demanding too much from the Constructors’ leaders. According to reports, Red Bull have asked Porsche to reduce their demands of taking a 50 percent share in the team, with the Austrians not prepared to sell that much. VW and Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has insisted that
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Red Bull are still optimistic that they can get a deal with Porsche over the line, but the deadline is getting nearer with each passing day. At the start of the year, it was reported that Volkswagen’s subsidiaries – Porsche and Audi – would be entering Formula 1. The initial suggestions were that they would
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First it was difficult to keep the deal a secret, now it might be difficult to keep the deal at all. Red Bull and Porsche are yet to finalise plans to partner in 2026 and, with an urgent need to get to work on the new engines under the revised technical regulations, decisions need to
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Max Verstappen defied all the odds at the Belgian Grand Prix to claim his ninth victory of the season, despite having started in P14. The reigning World Champion had qualified on pole but took a grid penalty due to an engine change which saw the Dutchman exceed his legal limit. This didn’t faze the championship
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Prior to the Belgian Grand Prix, many had predicted that the FIA’s technical directive would see Red Bull Racing and Ferrari drop closer to Mercedes; however, with Max Verstappen winning his ninth race of the season by 17.8 seconds, this clearly wasn’t the case. The FIA clamped down on porpoising at the Belgian Grand Prix, by measuring how
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has confirmed that the team did not bring a new chassis to the Belgian Grand Prix after their dominant performance. The Austrian side were generally expected to be quick at Spa due to the high-speed nature of the circuit and the long periods of full-throttle driving. 70 percent of
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Christian Horner has joked that the success Red Bull are enjoying is largely thanks to Toto Wolff. After spending last season very much evenly matched with Mercedes, Red Bull have pulled away this year, with their 2022 car much faster than their rivals’. Some felt that was the case in the first half of the
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Max Verstappen was in a league of his own at the Belgian Grand Prix, after making his way from P14 on the grid to claim his ninth victory of the 2022 Formula 1 season. The Dutchman had qualified on pole but was awarded a grid penalty after taking onboard a new power unit, exceeding his
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, made a naughty comment when asked about the compromised changes to the technical regulations for 2023. “Porpoising” and bouncing have been debated all season by the teams, with Mercedes keen to find a solution amid the physical dangers of it. A technical directive was introduced in Montreal in a
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