Overview
- The RB17 completed its first public running at Goodwood with Adrian Newey and Red Bull drivers taking the car up the hill on Thursday in demonstration runs rather than full‑speed tests.
- Red Bull and Cosworth confirm the RB17 uses a 4.5‑litre naturally aspirated V10 plus hybrid assistance for roughly 1,200 bhp, a 15,000 rpm redline, and a target weight under 900 kg.
- Adrian Newey said the car shown was a pre‑production example with active suspension and fan systems not fully calibrated, so the runs were to prove basic function rather than measure ultimate lap performance.
- Production is capped at 50 track‑only examples built at Red Bull’s Milton Keynes facility and sold with factory support, owner training and simulator access at a multi‑million‑pound price.
- Red Bull says it will carry out dedicated high‑speed validation later this year at track facilities to confirm simulation claims that the RB17 can approach current F1 lap times and to fully calibrate its active systems.