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Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has revealed that the team only plans to bring minor updates to their 2016 challenger for the rest of the season, with their focus now fully turned to developing next year's car.
With a major regulation overhaul coming into force next year, many teams have switched their development work to next year's cars earlier than normal, but Red Bull's close fight for second with Ferrari has seen them continue to develop their RB12.
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We have a few little bits and pieces [for Singapore]," Horner told Autosport. "Now the whole factory is focused on 2017. There are little bits and pieces [for the 2016 car] but nothing major."
After failing to finish on the podium for the first time since June in Italy last time out, Horner is confident that the team can return to form in Singapore - a circuit which the team currently holds the lap record courtesy of Daniel Ricciardo last year.
"It is a different type of circuit," he said. "We expect to be stronger. "Hopefully we can get closer to Ferrari and give them a harder time than we did in Monza."
"Monza is a pure horsepower circuit, slow-speed corners, long straights, so it's very clear where things are at. We're in a better position to where we were 12 months ago, but there is still some way to go to close that down."
"But we know that there are circuits coming up which should suit more the characteristics of our car. Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico are theoretically all tracks which should be reasonable for us."
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