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.
 
The fact that in 2008 he outscored the rest of the Red Bull stable combined would indicate that there is far more to it that the chassis and engine situation.
 
We all should know by now that when Vettel was at Toro Rosso Newy designed him a car special with extra boosts and a self driving app to get results for him (he didn't do this for Bourdais) and then when Vettel moved to Red Bull he completely forgot who Toro Rosso was and did it for Red Bull whilst making Webber a car out of newspaper.

Vettel doesn't even touch the wheel the car drives itself just look at the onboards.
 
But I thought they used the same chassis, but with a better engine? and until 2010 they were essentially a Red Bull B team, how could they develop the car?

I do not want to turn this in to a Seb Vettel is actually quite good despite what some people may say or think, so I am going to leave it here.

Please feel free to carry on coming up with reasons why Vettel is not as good as he has proven to be time and time again.
 
Would Vettel do better if he drove the post 2008 Toro Rosso's ? Helmut has been critical of Jaime and the moose because they could not win without a Newey chassis and less backing

Ricciardo has been criticised for not stepping like Vettel in the Toro Rosso he's got
 
Sebastian Vettel's points in 2008 with the new points system: 91

Everyone else who has driven for Toro Rosso combined (not including this season): 149

No one has come close to Vettel's points in a Toro Rosso. In fact, the only time 2 drivers managed to get more points than the 39 point total in 2008 was in 2011 when Alguersuari and the Moose scored 41 points. And that's with the new points system. And Bourdais only contributed 4 of those 39 points. And even without those 4 points 2011 would still be the only season where they scored more points.
 
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Yes I agree RasputinLives and to show this I will say that at one point the Ligier was a Benetton with a different paint job and when Micheal was winning championships in the Benetton the Ligier was midfield which proves Vettels and Schumachers pedigree..
 
Of the 6 teams to reach 50 pole positions, in terms of races entered Red Bull are second fastest...

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