---
title: "Drive Wire: Red Bull Racing Wants Ferrari Engines"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-09-24"
modified: "2015-09-24"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/301/drive-wire-red-bull-racing-wants-ferrari-engines"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Ferrari"
---

# Drive Wire: Red Bull Racing Wants Ferrari Engines

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Transcript:

Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko says the team is planning to leave Formula One racing unless it can get competitive Ferrari engines. Current engines supplied by Renault have been a major disappointment in terms of performance and reliability. An engine supply deal with Mercedes fell through earlier this week, and Ferrari seems understandably reluctant to supply their engine to a competing team. But you may remember that Ferrari stole Red Bull’s most prominent piece of racing technology, German driver Sebastian Vettel, in 2014.

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