Red Bull RB17: £5m-rated road car’s release date is confirmed

The first-ever Red Bull road car will take to the streets later this year.
Adrian Newey (GBR) Red Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 18, Qatar Grand Prix, Doha,
Adrian Newey (GBR) Red Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd…

The ♍RB17 will be the brand’s first-ever hyperᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcar and will cost £5m.

The design remains a closely-guarded secret.

B༺ut we know that Adrian Newey, the F1 team’s legendary designer, has been the mastermind of the♔ RB17.

The 🐻opportunity to create a road car was part of the reason Newey opted to remain at Red Bull.

He previously helped create the Astoജn Martin Valkyrie hypercar.

Only 50 will be released when 🐓the RB17 is finally unveiled, and most𒊎 are already sold.

F1 team princಞipal Christian Horner has now told that the RB17 will be available in♏ 2024.

Horner told Autocar about the RB17: “Adrian 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 desig﷽n work for the Valkyrie in partnership with A𓂃ston Martin.

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

“[RBAT] has now existed for close to eight years and there’s an awful lot of knowledge that has bee൩n built up in that time. 

“With the budget cap era [in F1], if you want to retain resources there have to be projects that can justify their existence.&🦩nbsp;

“This is a perfect project utilising the skill sets that we have, so it will complement our Formula 1 activ🌳ities rather than distract from them.”

Red Bull 🔜Advanced Technologies technical director Rob Gray added: “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 capabl﷽e of building in-house. That’s why we have such a low volume target.

“We know how to bꦑuild low-volume vehicles. We don’t ꦦwant to do mass production.”

He confirmed the RB17 will possess 150ไbhp, and added: “We want to use the hybrid to complement the internal combustion engine, rather than dominate it.”

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