Red Bull remain unbeaten in 2023 after winning all 12 of the races so far, with Max Verstappen claiming 1ജ0 victories and teammꦇate Sergio Perez winning the other two. 

The Milton Keynes outfit are steamrolling towards aꦑnother double world championship triumph with their dominant RB19 which has proved to be th𝓰e class of the field. 

While Horner said Red Bull were fairly confident they had a compet🐻itive car after pre-season testing, he insisted they never thought their advantage would be so big. 

"In February, we knew we had a good car, but we expected F꧒errari to build on last year, and we expected Mercedes to be there also,” Horner told ESPN. 

“And so, it completely took us by surprise j🔯ust how competitive we were compared to our opponents.”

Horner added: “I don’t think any of us thought that the car we had was actually as potent as that.✅ We could see from the race times🦄 that we were competitive. 

“The Aston looked like it was the closest to us. The Mercedes didn’t look in great s✃hape, they’d pioneered on with their concept. So we could only really tell our own performance. 

“Of course havinꦫg been in Bahrain last year and lost out with🤪 a reliability issue we were determined to put that right this year.”

Red Bull broke McLaren’s record for the most consecut🤪ive race wins in F1 history after Verstappen secured the team’s 12th in a row at the Hungarian Grand Prix. 

Verstappen followed that up with his eighth straight win in Belgium seven days later to make it 13 victories on the bouཧnce for Red Bul🅺l. 

There have been suggesti𓆉ons that Red Bull could go on to w𝔉in all 22 races this year, but Horner isn’t getting carried away with such thoughts. 

“I think the secret to success is the culture that fl𝕴ows throughout the business, very much a ܫcan-do attitude,” he said. 

“Everybody loves winning and we celebrate every success. We obviously had some difficult years where we were trying to get back into a winning position but nobody lostꦍ focus of what the target was, what the goal was and what ཧthe ambition was. 

“I’ve never seen motivation higher on the campus than we currently have. Winning is fun and we celebrateဣ every single victory.”