Christian Horner: Red Bull car configuration could change from race to race this year

Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner has said that his team’s car will likely never run in the same configuration this season from race-to-race, such is the rate of development and car evolution we are going to see in 2022.

Formula 1 is bringing in a swathe of new technical regulations for the coming campaign, with the cars looking drastically different to those we have seen in the last few years.

Indeed, there has been a complete overhaul of the aerodynamic side of the cars, and that is with a view to generating closer, more exciting racing up and down the field.

That all said, this year’s car launches have provided a real sense of intrigue as the teams begin to reveal how they have interpreted the new rules, but Horner has said that we are likely to see cars changing in looks as regularly as race-to-race, such will be the development rate over the course of the campaign:

“The car is a prototype and basically, at every race it is evolving, it will never run in the same configuration twice so it is constantly evolving.

“Now we have to do that within the framework of the financial regulations.

“So we have to be really choosy of where are we going to spend our money to develop this car this year.

“It is the biggest rule change we have seen in the last 30 years so everything about the chassis has changed for this year.

“The purpose of the change in the design is to allow the cars to follow each other more closely to create better overtaking opportunities and to create closer wheel-to-wheel racing.

“We saw plenty of that last year so if we get that even closer through these regulations this year, it is going to be an epic season.”