Red Bull has won all 10 races so far this season, with its outstanding RB19 car all but certain to propel runaway leader Max Verstappen to a third consecutive drivers' world championship.
The Milton Keynes team's generous advantage has allowed it to already start focusing on next year's car without having to bring any significant upgrades to its current machine, which has in turn allowed its rival teams to start closing the gap.
But regardless of Red Bull's absence from 2023's development war, Horner believes there are signs that rival teams are converging on it. And he believes this will continue if the regulations are left alone until 2026.
He thus dismissed the notion that Red Bull, which has also been afforded the least amount of development time as part of F1's ATR success handicap, will be able to emulate Mercedes' dominant streak between 2014 and 2020.
“One thing that we know from this sport is that things will converge. You can already see it starting to happen. And the most important thing to have convergence is to have stability,” Horner said after Verstappen's British Grand Prix win.
“Stability of regulations will bring all of the teams much closer together. You can see this is already starting to happen. It’s not going to be another seven years of domination.
“The power units are all pretty similar now and the chassis evolve much quicker than the engines do. We can already see from the start of the season to now, that things are already converging.”
Source: Autosport