Red Bull Racing Announces Hybrid Hypercar
In the segment of ultra-expensive sports cars, another ambitious novelty is ripening, the British two-seat hybrid Red Bull RB17 with the “most advanced ground effect” and dynamics at the level of Formula 1 cars. Production will begin in 2025, with 50 examples starting at £5m each.
Red Bull Racing is much more than a successful Formula 1 racing team, it has a full-fledged engineering firm, Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT), created in 2014, capable of introducing advanced racing technologies not only to road cars, but also to water and aeronautical transport. RBAT helped Aston Martin develop the most sophisticated model in its history, the Valkyrie hybrid hypercar. In 2021, the partnership between Red Bull and Aston Martin ended and now Red Bull wants to develop its own similar car on its own, lately it was officially announced, the first teaser was published.
The Red Bull RB17 is billed as an all-track hypercar powered by a hybrid V8 petrol engine with a combined power output of over 1,115 hp. The body will be based on a carbon fiber monocoque. The name RB17 is a combination not used in formula cars that was “lying on the shelf”: the 2020 Red Bull car was RB16, in the 2021 season it was upgraded to RB16B, and this year cars with the RB18 index are performing.
