Red Bull's title charge won't affect next year's preparations: Helmut Marko

According to Helmut Marko, the Red bull team can win this year’s championship and also prepared for the enormous changes in the 2014 rules.

“With these huge technological changes, it is a difficult situation for a team like us. Indeed, while some big teams like McLaren are basically now fully immersed in the 2014 Programme, abandoning this year’s car is not a luxury Red Bull can afford,” Marko said on Austrian television Servus TV.

“Our plan is that we are going to keep developing to win the (2013) world championship and, at the same time, work on the new car as well,” he added.

Marko also said that he believes in Adrian Newey’s capability of balancing the current development programs and the raft of changes next season.

“”We are not a small team, but we are not the biggest either. It’s not as though we have the new car just sitting in the corner — some teams in the technology group under Adrian Newey are working only on 2014,” he revealed.

The teams are preparing to adapt to a string of changes in the new season along with the uncertainty regarding the tyre supplier.