In 2025, after 19 years of work, Red Bull Racing will lose its genius designer Adrian Newey, who created all the team’s cars, including those that brought the Austrian team several championship titles. The specialist is no longer working on racing cars and is now focusing all his efforts on the RB17, a 1,250 horsepower high-tech track hypercar that will be produced in a very limited edition for connoisseurs of such models.
The hypercar will be powered by a 1,250-horsepower hybrid power plant based on a gasoline turbocharged V8 engine and a Formula 1-style kinetic energy recovery system. The new car should be lighter than the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro, also designed by Adrian Newey, but still heavier than another great F1 designer, Gordon Murray Automotive T.50, designed by another F1 great. designer Gordon Murray.
The hypercar will feature rough aerodynamics and many technical solutions that cannot be implemented in Formula 1 cars due to regulatory restrictions. The car will not be certified for use on public roads and will only be allowed to be used on closed racetracks. The Red Bull RB17 will be produced in a limited run of 50 examples, which will be produced over several years, 15 cars per year.
The hypercar will be delivered to customers in 2025. The price of the car will reach at least five million pounds or almost 6 million euros. Most of the cars that have not even been shown are already sold out. According to Adrian Newey, 65, he will work on the remainder of his contract with Red Bull Racing at Red Bull Advanced Technologies to complete the car by the time the RB17 premieres at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2024. in July
