Red Bull boss Christian Horner has conceded his team may have to endure a slow start to the new F1 season. The former world champions unveiled a revised car livery for the new season at a launch event in Londons Brick Lane on Wednesday, although their new RB12 car is being kept under wraps until the opening day of testing on Monday.Red Bull, after months of uncertainty and political wrangling, have ended up continuing with Renault engines for 2016, but Horner has previously warned they face a transitional season while the French manufacturers work on finding a breakthrough for their struggles. And asked at the launch if he still expected a transitional year, Horner replied: I believe it will be. We are going to start the year hopefully with some progress from the end of last year, but with our engine partners commitment to buying a team now, were hoping to see staged progress during the course of the year.We are hopefully going to see a steady rate of improvement, so probably the second half of the year is going to be more competitive than the first half. Red Bull have gone for a matt finish on their 2016 livery After salvaging second place to Mercedes in the Constructors Championship in the first year of F1s turbo regulations in 2014, Red Bull were also overhauled by Ferrari and Williams last year and Horner is again expecting 2015s leading teams to be strong.However, echoing Red Bull technical chief Adrian Newey, Horner also hinted that sister team Toro Rosso could pose an early threat too following their switch to Ferrari power.We know that Mercedes and Ferrari are going to be strong because even if they did nothing, theyre still going to be in good shape, Horner said. Red Bulls new 2016 look F1s former champions go aggressive in design of new livery Its difficult to know. How much have Williams found? What have Force India done? Weve just got to focus on ourselves.We know Toro Rosso, for example, will make a big step. Weve just got to focus on ourselves and do the best job we can.Despite the Red Bull-Renault relationship lurching to the brink of divorce in 2015, its continuation on revised terms for at least one more season means the short-term success of the Milton Keynes team is still largely wedded to the competitiveness of the French carmakers engine.But despite Renaults winter takeover of Lotus re-establishing themselves as an F1 constructor, Horner insists he is not worried his team will now receive inferior treatment. Red Bull have unveiled their new car for the 2016 season We know well get the same product from Renault that the works team will get, he said.Lets not forget, we won a World Championship when they had a works team in 2010 so Im not worried about there being a differentiation in treatment. The most critical thing is that theyve made progress with performance and that hopefully will happen throughout the year.With Renault having played down their own chances in 2016, Red Bulls aerodynamic package will again prove particularly key in their attempts to mix it at the front of the grid.Horner revealed the team had pushed the mandatory crash testing for the RB12 right up to the limit ahead of next weeks opening test.Were probably the latest team to do any of the crash tests, which have all been done this week, he said. They started on Monday and finished about an hour ago and were ready to go testing in Barcelona. 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