Red Bull has signed five more people from Mercedes to key roles in its new Formula One engine division. Editor's Picks Mercedes engineer will head up new Red Bull power unit department Red Bull will manufacturer its own engines from 2022 onwards following the withdrawal of Honda at the end of this season. It has already poached one of Mercedes' senior power unit enginers, Ben Hodgkinson, to head up the engine division, called Red Bull Powertrains, based at a new building at its UK facility in Milton Keynes. The team will purchase the designs of the existing Honda engine to continue to use it during the upcoming freeze on engine development, while preparing its in-house engine department...
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