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.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Look at it this way, being Vettel's team mate could be a career killer.....

 

[RasputinLives]

Yes JEV must be confused. He's got the teams best result since Vettel left, Beat Ricciardo on points last year and is ahead of him in the championship currently.

Ok his quali has been a bit on the poo side but he's looked on a par with Ricciardo all the way along so to be left out so must be a head scratcher.

He was known to have been talked too by the Enstone based team though just after the Canadian GP. Maybe they know something we don't.

 

[RasputinLives]

Actually come to think of it of I was JEV and I was approached by another half decent team I'd jump at it. That way if Ricciardo doesn't get the Red Bull seat he can be all like 'I left coz I knew neither of us were going to get the chance" and if Ricciardo does get the seat he can be all like "Well I chose to go a seperate way from Red Bull as I didn't want to play the number 2 driver"

I think in Sun Tzu's famous Art of War book thats described as the "I didn't want it anyway so nerr nerr nerr nerr nerr" approach.

 

[Bill Boddy]

Which team is Vergne going to go to where he will not be the number 2 driver?

 

[RasputinLives]

None really but there are teams he can pretend he's on even status. For instances if he went to the Enstone team and ended up with Hulkenberg as team mate he could pretend for the whole winter he was equal number one.

 

[Il_leone]

RasputinLives

Ricciardo has been the only one who has shown supposedly near Vettel's 1 lap speed and he was the first in the queue after Vettel who really stood out in testing

It does seem JEV seems to be not as good over 1 lap but is better over the race distance

I agree JEV should move because Helmut will start playing Russian roulette and say its the next young drivers on the list to be promoted so JEV is only going to get dropped unless STR will shock everyone

Are Total that fussy wanting a full French driver then rather than an adopted one at Lotus?

A shot in the dart how about Force India for JEV

 

[Mephistopheles]

Red Bull bring back the A1 ring.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1...-austrian-gp-to-return-to-f1-calendar-in-2014

Like they won't have a massive advantage there then, surely there should be some rule about a team who owns a track not being allowed to use it in an F1 season? What next Ferrari get Fiorano onto the calendar.....

 

[RasputinLives]

psssst we talk about that over the future Grand Prixs thread.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I got it wrong again didn't I

 

[Fenderman]

I dunno. When is a comment about Red Bull not a comment about Red Bull?

 

[sushifiesta]

When it's ajar.


I tried...

 

[RasputinLives]

When its a Torro Rosso maybe?

 

[Il_leone]

RasputinLives
When you have wings !

 

[cider_and_toast]

Was I the only one in thinking that "Fail 22" issued to Mark on Sunday meant "Car 2 will finish behind car 1". Makes as much sense as "multi 21" any way.

 

[sushifiesta]

I really don't see what they had to gain by using coded messages at that point either, it came quite near the end and they only had Raikkonen to contend with. I don't know what Lotus could have changed by knowing the Red Bulls were overheating, had KERS issues, engine issues or whatever it was. Webber was never close enough to Vettel to be troubling him so I don't see how it could be team orders.

Apart from the strategy Plan A/Plan B type of stuff, and a bit of Italian from Ferrari, none of the other teams seem to go out of their way to hide things. It seems like a tactic from another era.

 

[Fenderman]

Thought that myself cider_and_toast . It's probably just short-speak for something like "OK, they're out of reach reach, conserve the car and cruise to the finish".

 

[Jos the Boss]

The Bild is saying that Ricciardo will have the Red Bull seat, to be announced at Spa, which is pretty disappointing I think, Seb gets another pushover as opposed to a proven challenger, still I hope Dan proves me wrong
http://sportbild.bild.de/SPORT/form...l-kollege/red-bull-holt-daniel-ricciardo.html

 

[Slyboogy]

It was to be expected since it's been so quiet, apart from Toro Rosso saying that they are looking to replace Ricciardo IF he moves.

Think the test that was done was a success.

 

[Il_leone]

It will be interesting to see if the two go wheel to wheel which corner Helmut will stand in or will he sit on the fence 1

 

[KekeTheKing]

Let me ask this. If Ricciardo was not an Australian replacing an Australian, would he have been rewarded with a Red Bull drive? Because I can't help feel that played a crucial role.