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.
 
So, McLaren put software for a traction control system in the ECU, then told others, but forgot to use it themselves, either that of the FIA did not think to check that big black box with all the wires going to it. "That's a drinks dispensing system" Says Adrian. Ok then, as you were.
 
Despite the shear joy that would come from RB being found to be cheating, I strongly feel the performance gap was due to Newey tweaks and Seb simply being way better than a now unfocused webber just going through the motions to get his pay packet before he can get out at the end of the year.
 
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... Anybody remembers '94? Young German star, ambitious up and coming team, overwhelmingly superior car, even Senna seemed belittled ... Nothing surprises me anymore.
 
Despite the shear joy that would come from RB being found to be cheating
It would be very funny if the FIA launched an investigation and found Red-Bull had been using TC in Spa, Monza and Singapore but only on fingers car and disqualified Red-Bull from the WCC and Vettel from the WDC but left Webber in.

won't happen though.
 
What was Webbers excuse for the 4 years before this one?
Webber has been around 0.5-1 second slower the last few years, that is surely just Sebs talent. What we saw last time out was a 2.5 second gap. I think my comment stands. Webber is unfocused and going through the motions.
 
Blooming eck who elected Jen and gethinceri the english lit police?

It was a play on words, a jest, a wittercism designed to bring about merryment.

The joke is that emotion has the word motion in it and when Webber starts his car seems to have less forward motion than most.

They would have loved it on QI
 
I doubt it. Mr Fry would have been a lot less tolerant!

My post was aimed at Greenlantern101 and was also a witticism, but true none the less.

As for the English lit police, anyone can join!
 
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