Red Bull's 2024 Hyper Car Internally Being Referred To As Newey's 'Greatest Hits'

Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 21:00

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner and RBAT technical director Rob Gray have recently answered a few questions in relation to Red Bull's exciting 2024 hype car.

Christian Horner lately revealed Red Bull will launch their earlier announced hypercar in 2024. This year will mark an exciting step for Red Bull Racing, as the team has never produced cars outside of F1.

The team has previously collaborated with their partner Aston Martin in year 2014 to create Aston Martin Valkyrie, but this time, it will be Red Bull's car. Asked how the project came about, Horner told Autocar:

"Adrian [Newey] wanted to do a car [for us] back in 2014, and at that point in time, we found a route through that by doing all the design work for the Valkyrie in partnership with Aston Martin."

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Horner stated the vehicle that Red Bull's Adrian Newey was a masterpiece, but the technology has come a long way since 2014, and there are many new exciting elements that the CTO could build into the new hypercar.

"Valkyrie is a stunning vehicle and I’m sure it will be a great success, but you’re always learning, whether in Formula 1 or on the advanced technologies side."

As a leader in the Formula One World Championship, the Red Bull Racing team has a lot of knowledge that could be transferred to other series. According to RBAT technical director Rob Gray, that is exactly what the team did with RB17.

"There’s a lot in common between this car and the Formula 1 car in terms of the general engineering principles used to design it. Most of this car, the core, we are capable of building in-house. That’s why we have such a low volume target."

The natural question that comes to mind is whether RB17 is the first step toward Red Bull becoming a road car manufacturer. Horner responded:

"It’s the start of a journey. It’s an interesting starting point for us. You can never say ‘never’, but certainly this is a halo project for us."

The RB17 is supposed to feature a twin-turbocharged V8 hybrid powertrain making 1,250 horsepower, but the most exciting part about this car is the touch of Adrian Newey. Gray added:

"We internally sometimes refer to [the RB17] as ‘Adrian’s greatest hits’. There’s a lot of things that people will recognise… He’s constantly innovated on [this] vehicle and he’s involved in pretty much every aspect of design and engineering."

The car is estimated to be priced at around £5 million ($6.37 USD million). Would you pay $6.37 USD million for the RB17 if you could afford it?