Red Bull remain unbeaten🤪 in 2023 after winning all 12 of the races so far, with Max Verstappen claiming 10 victories and teammate Sergio Perez winning the other two. 

The Milton Keynes outfit are steamrol𒉰ling tow𒁃ards another double world championship triumph with their dominant RB19 which has proved to be the class of the field. 

While Horner said Red✅ Bull were fairly confident they had a competitiꦡve car after pre-season testing, he insisted they never thought their advantage would be so big. 

"In February, we knew we had a good car, but we expected Ferrari to build on last year, and we expected Mer🍸cedes to be there also,” Horner told ESPN. 

“And so, it completely tookღ us by surprise just how c𓃲ompetitive we were compared to our opponents.”

Horner added: “I don’t think 🍎any of us thought that the car we had was actually as potent as that. We could see from the race times that we were competitive.&n🗹bsp;

“The Aston looked like it was the closest to us. The Mercedes didn’t look in great shape, they’d pioneered on with their concept. So we could ဣonly really tell our own performance. 

“Of course having been in Bahrai✨n last year and lost out with a reliability issue we were determined to put that right this year.”

Red Bull broke McLaren’s record for the most consecutive race wins in F1 history after Versꦕtappen secured the team’s 12th in a row at the Hungarian Grand Prix. 

Verstappen followed that up with his eighth💎 straight win in Belgium seven days later to m🎃ake it 13 victories on the bounce for Red Bull. 

There have been suggestions that Red Bull could go on to win all 22 races this year, but Horner isn’t getting carried away with such thoug🃏hts. 

“I think the secret to success is the culture that flows throughout the business, very much a can-do attit🎐ude,” he said. 

“Everybody loves winning and w🧸e celebrate every success. We obviously had some difficult years where we were trying to get back into a winning position but nobody lost focus of what the target was, what the goal was and whatꦇ the ambition was. 

“I’ve never seen motivation higher on the campus than we currently have. Winning is fun a🅷nd we celebrate every singl🌳e victory.”