Toro Rosso Must Follow Red Bull’s Lead and Avoid 2015-Spec Ferrari Engine Deal

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Published: November 21, 2015

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So after the countless quit threats, the emergency paddock summits and the no-news news updates, Red Bull Racing appear to have finally found an engine for the 2016 Formula One season.

The four-time world champions' future had been cast in doubt over recent months as Red Bull tried and failed to secure a batch of V6 turbo power units from anyone but current suppliers Renault, with Mercedes, Ferrari and even Honda all fluttering their eyelashes at various stages.

With those opportunities ultimately coming to nothing, however, Red Bull's long, successful but strangely dysfunctional relationship with Renault is set to continue—albeit in a very different, detached fashion—for at least one more year, allowing them to focus on what really matters for a change.



Now the uncertainty is lifting, they can plan for the future, design the tiniest details of next year's RB12 chassis and plot their route back to the top of a sport they dominated just two years ago.

As F1 journalist Ted Kravitz told Sky Sports' Pete Gill and James Galloway, the team will receive a "basic Renault engine" for 2016, which will be modified by Mario Illien, an engine expert and a long-term associate of Adrian Newey, Red Bull's semi-retired chief technical officer.

The unique, "unbranded" engine agreement, should it be finalised, will be very much an temporary solution, a compromise made to keep the team on the grid when they could have easily been left dangling.



But it will, at least, offer Red Bull a chance to become the masters of their own destiny once again in an era when leading manufacturers, due to their success in mastering highly complex technology, have the power to play God.

That independence, after all, is what team principal Christian Horner cited as crucial when, per Sky Sports' Gill, he declined Sergio Marchionne's initial, semi-serious engine offer at J...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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