Red Bull are burning the midnight oil at their factory in Milton Keynes as they work flat-out on their upgrades for Barcelona which they hope will help them close the gap to Mercedes and Ferrari.
Horner told Sky Sports, “The whole factory is focused on that Barcelona upgrade. That hopefully is the catalyst to get our season started and it’s a lot of components and we’ll be hoping it’s going to deliver.”
“Adrian has been working night and day on it. He’s put a huge amount of effort into this upgrade. Hopefully it’ll deliver for us. Obviously the regulations are still quite immature, there’s still quite sizable gains to be had.”
After finishing second best constructor in the 2016 Formula 1 championship, Red Bull have dropped down the pecking order beow Ferrari and Mercedes.
Horner acknowledged, “The reality is if we line up in order we’ll be fifth and sixth. The gap I think in qualifying is going to be bigger than it will be in the race, so I would say 0.7 or 0.8 of a second in qualifying and hopefully we can get within 0.3 of a second in the race.”
“So for us this race is about damage limitation. The priority is to get both cars to the finish and then get that upgrade,” added Horner.
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