Red Bull's new partners Ford say there is no “bottomless pit” or “unlimited budget” of money to spend on F1
US-based giants Ford will enter F1 in 2026 through an alliance with Red Bull, a “strategic partnership” which the current constructors' champions hope will cemen👍t their dominance.
𝔍But any hope that Christian Horner’s team would benefit from their new partner’s vast financial resources have been denied by Mark Rushbrook, the♉ Global Director of Ford Performance Motorsports.
Asked if Ford 💖had a “bottomless pit” of money, Rushbrook said: “Definitely not bottomless, I can attest to tha🔥t. We do go racing in a responsible way, I believe, in all the different series that we go.
“We don’t have an unlimited budget,🍎 as much as racing sometimes wants 🍬you to go that way.
“We go in strat𓂃egically with the right partners to win races, but also with a responsible budget.”
“I think this, as an overlay or additional programme, is very special in terms of what the opportunity is and what the real benefit is to the marketing team from our company, to be able to leverage motorsports in a way that we hav𓂃en’t for a long time.”
Ford are ending a near-20 absence from the F1 grid - they are also involve🌸d in World Rally C🏅hampionship, NASCAR, Australian Supercars.
Red Bull are hoping to power Max Verstappen to a third consecutive championship in the upcoming season, while Honda will continue to manufacture t🧸heir engines.
James was a sports journalist at🐽 Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
