In 2025, after 19 years of work, the Red Bull Racing racing team will lose its brilliant designer Adrian Newey, who developed all the team’s cars, including those that earned the Austrian team several championship titles. The specialist has already been removed from working on racing cars and has focused all his efforts on the RB17, a 1250-horsepower high-tech track hypercar that will be produced in a very limited edition for connoisseurs of such models.
The hypercar will receive a 1250-horsepower hybrid power plant based on a V8 gasoline turbo engine and a kinetic energy recovery system in the spirit of Formula 1. The new product should be lighter than the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro, which Adrian Newey also worked on, but still heavier than the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50, created by another brilliant Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray.
Red Bull is preparing a 1250-horsepower high-tech hypercar RB17
The hypercar will receive aerodynamics with ground effect and a number of technical solutions, which are impossible to implement in Formula 1 cars due to regulatory restrictions. The car will not be certified for public roads and will only be allowed to be used on closed racing tracks. The circulation of the Red Bull RB17 will be 50 copies, which will be produced at a rate of 15 cars annually for several years.
Deliveries of hypercars to customers will begin in 2025 – the cost of the car will be at least five million pounds. Most of the cars that haven’t even been shown yet are already sold out. As 65-year-old Adrian Newey said, he will work out the remaining contract with Red Bull Racing at Red Bull Advanced Technologies in order to have time to complete the car – the premiere of the RB17 is expected at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2024.
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