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Porsche will have half of the Red Bull team if its return materializes

That Porsche is looking for ways into F1 and wants to join soon is probably one of the worst kept secrets. The German manufacturer has for a long time been linked with Red Bull and it is not without reason.

According to CarBuzz, the recently revealed Moroccan documents show that Porsche is to buy into the F1 team Red Bull. An official press release regarding the collaboration should come shortly, more specifically in a week, on August 4. According to the information, Porsche is to buy 50 percent of Red Bull's F1 team.

Red Bull has previously held talks with Porsche. The Austrian stable had to improvise a lot when engine supplier Honda announced its exit from F1. Red Bull, whose Dutch star Max Verstappen managed to win the world championship in 2021, currently has its own engines produced by Red Bull Powertrains.

Porsche's expected purchase of Red Bull would in all likelihood result in Red Bull starting to rely on Porsche engines for the foreseeable future. The sister stable Alpha Tauri is also expected to run with Porsche engines in the future, however, it should be clear that Alpha Tauri will still be owned 100 percent by Red Bull alone.

The plan was to announce the collaboration at Red Bull's home track Red Bull Ring in connection with the Austrian Grand Prix, but since the FIA ​​World Motor Sport Council did not approve the sport's new engine regulations for 2026, the announcement had to wait. The engine regulations are a direct prerequisite for Porsche's comeback to Formula 1.

The application to enforce the deal is certainly not an easy process. A total of 20 countries had to receive the application, due to the fact that the deal concerns the merger of two such large companies as Red Bull and Porsche.

But how is it then that such a large partnership was revealed in advance? Yes, the Moroccan government has legislation to follow. It states that applications of this type must be published after they have been approved, which they have now done. CarBuzz themselves must have had access to the document.

The partnership, which comes just before Porsche's IPO, is expected to make big headlines. We hope that it will above all create great success on the track!

by Jan Stepan