Max Verstappen had warned that his Red Bull team was good enough to win every single race of the Formula One season. On Sunday he took one more step toward that ambitious sweep by easing to victory at the Spanish Grand Prix. The two-time defending champion started from pole position and never was challenged as…

LONDON—Formula One champions Red Bull and Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo took their 2023 cars out on track on Friday for limited mileage pre-season filming. Red Bull published a tantalising teaser on Twitter of their RB19 lapping at Silverstone while Alfa Romeo said their C43 completed a successful debut at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. Red Bull held…

Ford will return to Formula One as the engine provider for Red Bull Racing in 2026, the carmaker announced on Friday at Red Bull’s launch event in New York. Ford will resume its involvement when F1’s new power unit regulations are introduced. The F1 2026 rule changes call for the current twin-turbo V6 engines to…

MEXICO CITY—Fancy catering and energy drinks. Social security contributions and medical treatments for an employee that survived their illness. Those are some of the expenditures Red Bull claimed Friday it improperly misrepresented when submitting its 2021 financial report. It led to a breach of Formula One’s spending cap, set at $145 million for its debut…

AUSTIN, Texas—Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, announced Mateschitz’s death Saturday. There was no immediate word…

Red Bull principal Christian Horner said he remains committed to the Formula 1 team for the foreseeable future. Horner, 48, has led the team since it entered F1 in 2005. Red Bull has won four Constructors Championships during that time and Max Verstappen has an excellent chance to win consecutive driver’s championships—which would give the…

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—Toto Wolff and Christian Horner barely looked at each other when they sat side-by-side three weeks ago discussing the Formula One championship. Their frosty relationship thawed briefly Friday ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are tied in the points standings heading into the…

LONDON—Max Verstappen’s British Grand Prix collision with Lewis Hamilton cost Red Bull $1.8 million with ‘massive ramifications’ for a team operating under Formula One’s budget cap, principal Christian Horner said on Friday. In a combative column on the Red Bull website, Horner revealed the championship leader’s seat was broken by the first lap impact in…

LONDON—Lewis Hamilton’s penalty for causing an opening-lap collision with Formula One rival Max Verstappen at last Sunday’s British Grand Prix was harsh, according to his Mercedes team’s technical head James Allison. Allison said in a post-race debrief that the seven-time world champion had done nothing wrong. “As far as we were concerned…the maneuver that Lewis…