Red Bull Racing Makes Infiniti Split Official

Red Bull Racing and Nissan/Infiniti have mutually agreed to discontinue their collaboration at the end of December this year.

This announcement comes short after Red Bull let us know they’ll be racing with TAG Heuer branded Renault engines in 2016 and marks the first time since 2010 that Red Bull and Infiniti haven’t been associated with each other.

Aside from the fact that the two companies will stop their commercial partnership at the end of the year, it’s also worth noting that this will happen one year earlier than originally stipulated.

Also, Nissan will not provide Red Bull Racing with light commercial vans anymore, which means that the Milton Keynes outfit will have to outsource transportation from another manufacturer.

In terms of success, this has clearly been one of the top partnerships in all of Formula One over the past couple of years. In fact, Red Bull won four consecutive F1 driver and constructor titles between 2010 and 2013, which is when Infiniti became the team’s title sponsor.

Even though Red Bull is racing with re-branded Renault engines and with TAG Heuer to probably feature heavily on the car’s 2016 livery, we still don’t know what’s going to happen to the team after next year. Their new deal with Renault is more of a lifeline than anything else, which means that we might see them make a lot more new changes for the 2017 and/or 2018 seasons and beyond.

Hopefully we’ll have more engine manufacturers joining F1 by then, and perhaps even a lot more performance coming from that Honda hybrid power unit.