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

The ♍RB17 will be the brand’s first-ever hyperᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcar 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.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spor🤪ts, to football, to F1.