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.

 

[Radical F1]

I hope RB duke it up with Merc and Ferrari. A 3 way championship battle for a change !

 

[Izumi]

DATE: 2019-03-01 CET: 12:14

https://www.grandprix247.com/2019/0...built-in-a-day-this-is-a-2-to-3-year-project/

Is this inadvertent revelation of Horner's thoughts, that we will be racing with hybrids after 2020?

 

[gethinceri]

If CH said it, it's bullshit.

 

[Titch]

What does the CET stand for.

 

[RasputinLives]

Central Europe Time?

 

[Izumi]

What does the CET stand for.

CET is an international acronym for Central Europe Time.
In here when I bookmark a conversation, I can cross-ref. to articles in media, etc. It is useful for my own "administration" when I do search history of my own comments.

 

[Izumi]

If CH said it, it's bullshit.

Why do you think so?

 

[gethinceri]

Because I think he's a bullshitter.

 

[Titch]

How efficient Izumi.

So Friday 23.46 GMT for this post.

Can’t see me being that organised.

 

[Dartman]

For the uninitiated CET is normally 1hr ahead of any UK time( there occasionally is a period, possibly about a week when they coincide at summer/winter change over, EET (Eastern European time is 2 hrs ahead of UK, Cyprus, Greece for example) for me most of Indy will be early morning.

 

[Izumi]

How efficient Izumi.

So Friday 23.46 GMT for this post.

Can’t see me being that organised.

Hmm, right. Looks like you had to hit a lot of keys and check data to create your time stamp. I am naturally a lazy person, so I use Text Expander, and touching gently 3 keys will produce desired data in auto-mode, including my location and weather record, if I need to have it. Little technology pleasures.

 

[Izumi]

For the uninitiated CET is normally 1hr ahead of any UK time( there occasionally is a period, possibly about a week when they coincide at summer/winter change over, EET (Eastern European time is 2 hrs ahead of UK, Cyprus, Greece for example) for me most of Indy will be early morning.

GMT is now a time zone (as CET is). More here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/uk/london

 

[RasputinLives]

GMT has always been a time zone. In fact it was the first time zone and is the time zone all other time zones use as their base.

 

[Angel]

That is correct, GMT is the standard, everyone else is + or - from GMT. See, we Brits even control the time as well

 

[Izumi]

GMT has always been a time zone. In fact it was the first time zone and is the time zone all other time zones use as their base.

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the basis for civil time today. This 24-hour time standard is kept using highly precise atomic clocks combined with the Earth's rotation.

 

[RasputinLives]

Izumi Wikipedia is your friend

English speakers often use GMT as a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time(UTC).[2] For navigation, it is considered equivalent to UT1 (the principal form of Universal Time and the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude);

Originally, astronomers considered a GMT day to start at noon, while for almost everyone else it started at midnight. To avoid confusion, the name Universal Time was introduced to denote GMT as counted from midnight.[4]Astronomers preferred the old convention to simplify their observational data, so that each night was logged under a single calendar date.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees, adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884. Synchronisation of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time, which was still solar time. But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne's method of lunar distancesbased on observations at Greenwich, led to GMT being used worldwide as a standard time independent of location. Most time zones were based upon GMT, as an offset of a number of hours (and possibly half or quarter hours) "ahead of GMT" or "behind GMT.

Greenwich Mean Time - Wikipedia

Have a read. Lots of links to advanced stuff if you enjoy it.

 

[Izumi]

I thought that what is being discussed time zones related acronyms which are globally used today. I also use and subscribe to SI and ISO, whereas Brits like to talk about stones and pounds instead kg, and everyone lives happily side by side.I am also hoping I am not going to receive another lecture how long a foot was used as a unit of measurement, and therefore it would be good for me to change my ways.

 

[RasputinLives]

You can measure your units in Sebastian Vettels finger nails for all I care. Just you said GMT was NOW a timezone and I was just letting you know in was infact the first modern timezone and therefore hasn't just appeared.

 

[gethinceri]

I use metric measurements for most things. I only use Imperial if I'm ordering a pint or driving a car.
Broadly brushing Brits as a group that "like to talk about stones and pounds instead kg" is interesting.
I'd rather use the French Republican Calendar than be forced to use only Imperial measures again.

 

[RasputinLives]

I use metric for length but imperial for weight - which I know is odd but it's just how I work. We are a multi measurments society though.

A UK can of Red Bull is measure in ML for instance. Have i bought us back to topic?