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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Giles Richards in Milton Keynes

‘It has clearly exceeded expectations’: inside Red Bull’s F1 engine factory

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen steers his car during the qualifying session of the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix
Max Verstappen is unhappy with the new rules in F1 but his team are confident in the new engines they have built for this season. Photograph: Andy Wong/AP

Driven hard, driven fast is very much the norm in Formula One, on and off track, but even by the sport’s own standards the development of Red Bull’s in-house engine project has been exceptional. As is what it has delivered.

Walking through the gleaming corridors of the team’s bespoke engine manufacturing department at their Milton Keynes headquarters, it is all but impossible to conceive that only four years ago the area where the buildings stand was just empty space peppered with rubble.

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