Formula 1 | Red Bull, Horner has no doubts: “Our world championship? With 50 more horsepower it would have been different"

Present at the Autosport Awards ceremony, Christian Horner performed some evaluations on the season just concluded, underlining how the Red Bull chassis performed well in the face of Ferrari and Mercedes. According to what was declared by the Team Principal of the Austrian Scuderia, in fact, the technicians in Milton Keynes have carried out excellent work on the aerodynamic level, creating a car of the highest level, probably the best of the last ten years.

Horner, precisely in this sense, has no doubt about the fact that with a better power unit (about 50 hp more. ed.), Ricciardo and Verstappen would have competed with Hamilton and Vettel for the world title, giving a profoundly different meaning at the last world championship.

Here are the words of Christian Horner: “It's always easy to make evaluations afterwards, but if we had had another 50 hp the championship would probably have been different. Precisely for this reason I want to thank all the guys who work in Milton Keynes. They have done an extraordinary job, putting together one of the best chassis in our history. The proof of this is the difference we had compared to the teams that were using the same engine as us."

On the future with Honda he added: “This year we have suffered with reliability and it has been our biggest Achilles heel. We've had 11 or 12 withdrawals and that's something we can't afford. Hamilton had a DNF this year and the same goes for Vettel too. We need to improve on this too."