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.
 
teabagyokel - It was the imagined 'fly on the wall' statement that I objected to. When Schumacher announced his retirement after the 2006 Italian GP most commentators considered he was driving as well as he ever had in his career. The truth of course is Ferrari never employ a new driver as their number one, they first need to prove themselves.
 
Can we remember this is the Red Bull thread please. There are threads for Schumie, Ferrari and Kimi.

Cheers

FB
 
Sorry. This developed into a side issue when it was suggested Vettel might leave Red Bull for Ferrari. Didn't intend to move the thread off topic.
 
Having just watched "One of our Dinosaurs is Missing" I thought here would make a good place for a movie quote.... Can't think why!

"You do the driving, I'll make the apologies!".

Edit: grammar correction to prevent any more mental trauma for ExtremeNinja
 
Horner's having another BF (bitchfit) about the tyres. He say four stops is "too much". Funny how he didn't say that after Vettel won the race in 2011 having done four pit stops. I wish he'd stop making comments to help further his agenda while claiming that all parties are unhappy. I seem to remember something like 8/11 teams didn't want a tyre change not long ago.
 
Didn't hear Red Bull complaining about tyres after Vettels win in Bahrain when Massa suffered two tyre delaminations. I know the problems in Spain were a little extreme but coping with tyre issues and a driver being able to make the most of a changing car has always been a part of F1. It's not sprint racing and hopefully never will be. All at Red Bull should take a look at photos of the Silver Arrows in the thirties with their tyres shredded to the canvas after racing at 180mph plus. Lots of pit stops in those days. LOL
 
McLaren always go on about how they have won 1 in every 4 races since entering.

Red-Bull must surely be beating them on this by now? and even more on championships??
 
And so will Red Bulls in the future, nobody stays at the top for ever and if you want a stat that proves this, then I give you Brawn who's hit rate was just short of 50% 8 wins from 17 races entered, roughly 1 in 2 I can't see that ever being beaten...

Once Red Bull have been around for as long as McLaren, then you can start making comparisons.....
 
I take half of my correction back:snigger:. In 2011 Vettel won Spain on a 4 stop strategy and you didn't hear a peep from Red Bull so I claim to be half correct despite their comments after Bahrain this year. :cheers:

True, but two years later they are +/- 51 sec. slower in total race time.
 
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