Friday 19 December 2014

Horner excited by what should be a fantastic Formula One season in 2015

(Bernard Asset DPPI for Renault Sport F1)

Infiniti Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner believes that the 2015 Formula One season will be fantastic. Despite losing out to the Mercedes AMG PETRONAS F1 Team in the race for the 2014 Formula One championship, Horner believes that 2014 was the Milton Keynes based outfits best season.

The competition between his two drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo was fantastic to watch and Horner believes that the fact that Daniel Ricciardo beat him in 2014 was a factor in the German’s decision to leave the team and join Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari from 2015.

Williams Martini Racing, Mercedes, Lotus and Force India are the only teams to retain the same driver line up as 2014 for next season and Horner believes that this will prove to be a fantastic prospect for the sport and the fans alike. The fact that those four teams have unchanged pairings for 2015 could prove to be beneficial to them for next season.

Out of those teams however, Lotus have a huge change as along with McLaren they will change power unit supplier. 

The Enstone outfit will use a supply of Mercedes power units. However despite the change the team have yet to conduct mileage with the new engine unlike the McLaren Honda team who conducted a filming day last month with the new Honda power unit in the back of their interim MP4-29H chassis.

Horner is also excited by the prospect of Daniil Kvyat making the step up to Infiniti Red Bull Racing next season to partner Daniel Ricciardo, who has been a revelation for the team this year.

© Ben Johnston 2015

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