The Red Bull RB17 is astonishing. Twelve-hundred horsepower, from a 4.5-liter V-10, a sub-2,000-pound curb weight, and capable of up to 3,747 pounds of downforce. Adrian Newey, Red Bull's soon-departing design genius and the main mind behind the RB17, spoke to media at the car's Goodwood Festival of Speed debut Friday and revealed another astonishing figure—in recent simulation testing, the RB17 was quicker than a modern Formula 1 car. About a second a lap quicker than the pole time around Silverstone for last week's British Grand Prix.
