Hamilton wants Red Bull to join title fight

When leaving the engine manufacturer Renault to take up the challenge Honda, Red Bull Racing put an end to a collaboration which notably resulted in four Manufacturers' world titles between 2010 and 2013, during the era of naturally aspirated V8s.

The change of engine block for 2019, with a passage into the Japanese fold, returned with McLaren and who had already motorized the little sister Toro Rosso from 2018, constitutes a reorientation intended according to the management of Milton Keynes, to bring back the single-seaters displaying the red bull to the very front rows alongside Mercedes et Ferrari.

A three-way match that we also hope for… Lewis Hamilton. The reigning world champion would not mind future Red Bull single-seaters interfering in the fight for the title.

“(Mainly), I imagine it's going to be Sebastian (Hag) and Valtteri (Bottas), but Red Bull… they have a great car, and they were very strong at the end of the year, mentions Hamilton, cited by the website of the F1.

They have a new engine next year. Will it be able to compete with ours? I hope so, because it would be epic if Red Bull could really start to get a little more involved in our fight, weekend after weekend. They obviously need to improve their reliability, which put them at a big disadvantage in 2018.”

Toro Rosso “wiped the plaster” last year with Pierre Gasly et Brendon Hartley, regularly penalized on the grid after multiple element changes on the V6 turbo / hybrid Power Units, but this preparatory work could greatly serve Red Bull Racing this year.

Pierre Gasly should also be a more than useful transmission link between Honda and his new employer, he who had worked alongside Japanese engineers in Super Formula in 2017 before arriving in F1 the following year.