霍纳：从零打造红牛F1引擎“可怕至极”
前红牛车队领队克里斯蒂安·霍纳表示，从零开始打造车队自研动力单元“可怕至极”；该引擎在2026赛季已取得首场分站胜利，而霍纳本人早在一年前已被红牛解职。
克里斯蒂安·霍纳：从零打造红牛F1引擎“可怕至极”
克里斯蒂安·霍纳回顾了将红牛与福特合作的引擎从“彻头彻尾的初创项目”带到首个赛季即赢得分站冠军的历程
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霍纳在2025年英国大奖赛后被解除米尔顿凯恩斯的职务。一连串糟糕的成绩和争议导致了这一刻，这位英国人最终被洛朗·梅基斯取代，后者当时正领导着姊妹车队小红牛。然而，在本田退出锦标赛后，霍纳一直负责红牛与福特的合作。
这款与福特合作的动力单元今年首次上赛道，此后被国际汽联标记为内燃机的标杆。马克斯·维斯塔潘也在雪邦为这款动力单元带来了首场胜利，并在新加坡再下一城。
伊萨克·哈贾尔，红牛车队，马克斯·维斯塔潘，红牛车队，洛朗·梅基斯，红牛车队领队
在接受Motorsport.com采访时谈到他的动力总成胜利，他说：“这可以说是我在红牛时期面临的最大挑战，因为一切从零开始。那里什么都没有。[这是]一个完全的初创项目。看到那台引擎所达到的里程碑，建立制造设施、制造活塞、从实心块加工气缸，令人惊叹，投入到那个项目中的承诺。”
“那简直可怕极了，因为我们完全没有制造引擎的经验。”
他补充道：“看到那台引擎在它的第16场比赛、也就是第一年就赢得胜利，我为此深感自豪。我为团队的人们感到无比骄傲，为他们所做的一切和取得的成就感到骄傲，因为在许多方面，人们很容易低估从零开始打造一台引擎的挑战，尤其是在这项运动历史上最复杂的一套引擎规则之下，还要击败那些经验丰富得多的车队和制造商。”
这篇采访刊出之际，霍纳的回忆录《Drive》即将出版，他在书中还声称，在托托·沃尔夫接任之前，尼基·劳达曾试图聘请他担任梅赛德斯车队领队。
红牛前往奥斯汀时，在车队积分榜第三名的争夺中落后迈凯伦七分。
英文原文
Christian Horner: Building Red Bull’s F1 engine was “scary as hell”
Christian Horner reflects on taking Red Bull’s Ford-partnered engine from a “complete startup” to a race winner in its first season
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Former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has admitted that building the team’s in-house power unit from scratch was “scary as hell”, after the engine claimed its first race wins this 2026 season. This comes despite him being axed from the team a year earlier.
Horner was removed from his position in Milton Keynes after the 2025 British Grand Prix. A bout of poor results and controversy led to this moment, with the Briton being eventually replaced by Laurent Mekies, who was, at the time, leading the Racing Bulls sister team. Horner, however, had been leading Red Bull’s partnership with Ford after Honda withdrew from the championship.
This Ford-partnered power unit hit the track for the first time this year and has since been labelled as the benchmark internal combustion engine by the FIA. Max Verstappen also gave the power unit its first win at Sepang, and another in Singapore.
Isack Hadjar, Red Bull Racing, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, Laurent Mekies, Red Bull Racing Team Principal
Talking to Motorsport.com about his power train triumph, he said: “It was arguably the biggest challenge I had in my time at Red Bull, because it was from nothing. There was nothing there. [It was] a complete startup. To see the milestones that engine was achieving, producing [a] manufacturing facility, manufacturing pistons, machining cylinders out of solid blocks, it was amazing, the commitment that went into that project.
“It was scary as hell because we had no experience of building engines.”
He added: “The satisfaction of seeing that engine win in its 16th race in its first year, I take great pride in that. Tremendous pride in the people, what they have done and achieved, because in many respects it’s easy to underestimate the challenges of taking an engine from scratch, particularly within the most complex set of engine regulations in the history of the sport, and beating teams and manufacturers with so much more experience.”
The interview comes ahead of the release of Horner’s memoir, Drive, in which he also claims Niki Lauda tried to hire him as Mercedes team principal before Toto Wolff took the job.
Red Bull heads to Austin seven points behind McLaren in the battle for third in the constructors’ championship.
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