For 2022 the world champion team with Max Verstappen will field the RB18. Although Honda has officially left Formula 1, the engines used by the team headed by Christian Horner will always be the Japanese units, albeit renamed Red Bull Powertrains. At the wheel of the two cars are Max Verstappen, 2021 champion, and Sergio Perez. The technical director of the Milton Keynes team is Pierre Waché while former driver and winner of the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hours Helmut Marko holds the position of special adviser.