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' champion൩s hope will cement their dominance.
But any hope that Christian Horner’s team would benefit from their new partner’s vast financial resources have been denied by ꦬMark 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 that. We do go rac♕ing in a responsible way, I believe, in all the differen🌠t series that we go.
“We d෴on’t have an unlimited budget, as much as racing sometimes wants you to go that way.
“We go in strategically with the ꦯright partners to win races, but also with a responsible budget.”
“I think thi🎶s, 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 haven’t for a long time.”
F💖ord are ending a near-20 absence from the F1 grid - t๊hey are also involved in World Rally Championship, NASCAR, Australian Supercars.
Red Bull are hoping to power Max Verstappen to a thir𒁃d consecutive championship in the upcoming season, while Honda will c🦄ontinue to manufacture their engines.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything fro💖m American sports, to football, to F1.
