Current Red Bull Racing

Red Bull Racing

FIA Entry: Red Bull Racing Renault
Car 1: Sebastien Vettel
Car 2: Mark Webber
Engine: Renault V8
Team Owner: Dietrich Mateschitz
Team Principal: Christian Horner
Chief Technical: Office Adrian Newey
Chief Designer: Rob Marshall
Race Engineer Car 1: Guillaume “Rocky” Rocquelin
Race Engineer Car 2: Ciaron Pilbeam

Stats as of end 2010

First Entered 2005
Races Entered 107
Race Wins 15
Pole Positions 20
Fastest Laps 12
Driver World Championships 1
Constructor World Championships 1

Team History

Before Red Bull

In 1997 Paul Stewart, aided by his father Jackie and the Ford Motor Company, made the leap from F3000 to F1 as an entrant. Jonny Herbert won 1 race for the Stewart team before it was sold off to Ford who re-branded the cars as Jaguar.

Ford stuck with it through thick and thin (mainly thin) through to the end of 2004 before selling the team to Dietrich Mateschitz, who owns the Red Bull drinks brand, for $1 on the understanding he invested $400 million over 3 years

Red Bull Racing

With Christian Horner installed as team principal, McLaren refugee David Coulthard and Christian Klien as the drivers Red Bull went racing. Their first season was certainly more successful than Jaguar had managed, even with the same Cosworth power plant, with Coulthard managing a 4th place at the European Grand Prix and the team finishing 7th in the Constructors Championship.

Adrian Newey joined from McLaren as chief designer for 2006 and Red Bull swapped to Ferrari engines. Coulthard managed a podium at his "home" race in Monaco prompting Christian Horner to jump naked, other than wearing a red cape, into a swimming pool.

Christian Klien, who shared the car with Vitantonio Liuzzi in 2005 and Robert Doornbos in 2006, departed the team for 2007 and was replaced by Mark Webber. The RB3 was the first full "Newey" car and was coupled with a Renault motor. The car was very unreliable, suffering from a variety of different problems but Webber managed a podium at the European Grand Prix and the team finished 5th in the WCC.

Retaining the same engine and drivers for 2008 Red Bull slipped back to 7th in the WCC and again only managed a single podium, for Coulthard in Canada, but the reliability issues which plagued the car the previous season were mainly resolved.

2009 was Red Bull's break through year. With Coulthard having retired Webber was joined by Red Bull junior driver Sebastien Vettel. The new rules allowed Newey to design a car which challenged for both the Drivers and Constructors Championship. Webber won 2 races, Vettel 4 and the team climbed to 2nd in WCC taking 3 pole positions en-route.

In 2010 Red Bull justified Mateschitz's investment winning the Constructors title and Vettel the Drivers Championship. They won 9 races through the season, 5 for Vettel and 4 for Webber and took 10 poles. Webber led the title race for much of the season but it was the 23 year old Vettel who stole the title in the last race of the season and became the youngest Champion as a result.

2011 sees the team retain the same driver line up as 2010 and continue with Renault engine power in the new RB7 car.

 

[Il_leone]

RasputinLives I expect to see Alex Lynn in a Williams next year because I don't see Bottas staying and Massa is getting older they could simply replace with Nasr unless the shareholders want a big name driver. Lynn did win the sprint race in Barcelona

Well Gasly needs to show in Gp2 he's ready to step up otherwise Helmut will look to GP3 or WSR3.5

 

[RasputinLives]

WSR 3.5 no longer exists

 

[TR]

It is not like time travel is beyond the capabilities of the almighty Dr. Marko.

 

[Incubus]

Dr Who?...

 

[Il_leone]

Sorry did not check that bit I guess there is only Gp3 to go down to

IF you were Renault it made sense seeing they need to spend more resources into improving their F1 team

 

[F1Brits_90]

GP3 are sure they aren't too old for helmut marko. there was a 20yr old who won the sprint race he's over the hill compared to max verstappen

 

[RasputinLives]

Red Bull is running it's two other youngsters in Europen F3 this year. Neither has looked spectacular but the Finn Kari is looking promising to say it's his first year in cars.

 

[Il_leone]

F1Brits_90 After a change in the regulations where F1 drivers have to be 18 year olds there is no chance seeing 15 year olds racing in F1 if Red Bull

 

[RasputinLives]

If they find a 15 year old who makes enough waves in the press as being the next wonder kid I'm betting that rule will be gone faster than you can say "Bernie smells money".

 

[Wombcat]

Please, please, please, anyone but Massa in a Williams next year year. I reckon Niki Lauda could be a better job.

I.m not so sure

 

[Speshal]

Wake me up when they run an Aston Martin engined Red Bull but until then turn the light out and shut the door.

Wake-y

Slightly off topic but.......

 

[canis]

I would have completed the entire response to that car in emoticons, but couldn't find one for haveing to now mop the floor due to the drool....

 

[Greenlantern101]

Ooooohhhh nice

 

[Titch]

Can I have one please.

 

[canis]

Titch 99 being made with a waiting list of over 300 at the time the video was released. No price published as yet just an estimate with over a million pounds in the possible variance. It appears that this is going to be one of the most exclusive hyper cars made so far and more than likely one that we won't see on the road as it is not going to be anywhere near a normal drive for the individual...

 

[Speshal]

Titch 99 being made with a waiting list of over 300 at the time the video was released. No price published as yet just an estimate with over a million pounds in the possible variance..

2-3 Million quid was quoted in that video

 

[canis]

Speshal I think the attitude is that if you have to ask the exact price you can't afford to buy one

I love the way you get your hands on one of these as well. First you let Aston Martin know you are interested, then at a time not yet decided AM and RB take the list and decide who they wish to invite to hand over their spare change for a car that they probably will drive home and then lock away until it is worth 10 times the amount. The production run is going to be between 99 and 150 units including 25 track only LMP1 qualifying vehicles and all prototypes.

What I don't understand from the details available is what AM are bringing to the party other than the engine, pre-existing sales route and a badge. The body work, chasis and all components other than the engine are being manufactured by Red Bull tech, the engine is a modified design AM V12 built by them. If Red Bull were actually serious about moving into this market then surely buying the engine and providing a red bull car would be better for them, or do we see this as the start of the move to Red Bull Aston Martin partnership in F1? After all, that would end up being roughly the same deal with AM providing an engine and Red Bull doing the rest...

 

[Greenlantern101]

Can I just point out it's not going to have a reverse gear. In my opinion that isn't a road car, thats a race car. If you can't back it out your own garage without a pit crew then they have a hard neck calling it a road car.

 

[Titch]

A paltry 2 to 3 million. That's nothing. A quick whip round at CTA should see me in one in no time.

 

[canis]

Greenlantern101 It can be reversed, just you use the hybrid power and not the engine to do so. The reason for this? That it saves a few pounds on the gearbox making it just that little bit closer to their goal of a 1:1 ratio of bhp to weight.

Titch even if you have the money you have to convince both Aston Martin and red Bull that you are the sort of person they want seen driving their car around. Look for most of the units to go to middle eastern oil money and a few overly famous idiots...