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.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Spike, a legend. How so much sanity came from the pen of a man so close to insanity, I will never know.

 

[FB]

Looked for who is credited with that saying but can't find it anywhere. Anyway, as we stray off topic, what money Red Bull and Toro Rosso swap at least one driver through the season?

 

[cider_and_toast]

I wouldn't have thought so. Perhaps for the following season but the two Daniels should do enough to keep their ends up. Max would really have to push them hard and he's now entering that difficult second season.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Red Bull have announced a new partnership with Aston Martin

 

[canis]

Greenlantern101 that has been the longest wait for someone to announce what everybody suspected they knew since Elton John coming out of the closet

 

[cider_and_toast]

So Adrian Newey flicks a pen in the general direction of an Aston Martin design and in return Aston get a logo on the car so small that even the Hubble Space telescope would have to work hard to pick it out.

Wake me up when they run an Aston Martin engined Red Bull but until then turn the light out and shut the door.

 

[Il_leone]

its a partnership but not engine supply

It would be interesting to see if Dave Richards wants to get involved or not

Not sure if Mercedes would lend engines and rebadge them as Aston Martin to Red Bull

 

[RasputinLives]

I've decided the new Red Bull matt finish looks rather nice.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Judging by riccardio & palmed Renault certainly taken a big step forward they werent sitting ducks battling Mercedes & are able to overtake/defend. Red bull look like possible race winners when if this engine update at Montreal is as good as they say are although bet Kyvat gutted, still to contest an Australian gp in a red bull with car conking out again but at least he made it to formation lap this yr.

 

[RasputinLives]

Red Bull are currently in a situation where they have to put Verstappen in their A team next year or they'll lose him. This will involve the dumping of one driver they have previously nurtured and they've not given a massive amount of time to show off what he's got I.e. Danni Kvyat.

In order to avoid a media disaster they need a reason for dropping their once thought superstar. So after the last race I'm pretty sure we'll see most people from Red Bull kick Kvyat when he's down. Hell even Danny Ric laid into him in the post race interview.

 

[teabagyokel]

In order to avoid a media disaster they need a reason for dropping their once thought superstar.

Pretty daft for him to hand them one...

 

[RasputinLives]

True. But if it had been Danny Ric or Max Verstappen then it would have been put down to a bad day.

They're trying to make it sound like its a re-occurring issue but can anyone recall Kvyat getting into an incident like this prior to race just gone? China doesn't count as the universal opinion was he did nothing wrong.

Don't get me wrong I'm not gonna argue that Kvyat has covered himself in glory in the last race but it just bothers me that the 'he's dangerous' mud that get thrown around in the media sticks. I've seen all the top drivers do stuff just as bad off the line.

 

[vintly]

Perfect storm for Kvyat:

Apart from the spat with Vettel in China (even though he came out the rightful innocent 'winner' in that episode, in a wider context it could be misconstrued otherwise), and the double-whammo into Vettel in Russia, and the Max Verstappen aspect – Williams got 22 points in Russia, just to compound the effect of Kvyat's actions.

He goofed in Russia but it only takes a good race from him against a poor one from Max to even things out again. Likely? Perhaps not, but I hope he gets the chance to shine again soon, good potential there.

 

[Kewee]

I like Kvyat, he's a racer. If he had only made contact with Vettel once in Russia we wouldn't even be talking about him. The first impact was clearly Kvyat's fault, no one would deny that, but Vettel backed off the power so quickly just before the second hit it took Kvyat by surprise. Unfair to blame him entirely for the second impact.
Plenty of drivers have been guilty of much the same early in their careers and later when they should have known better. Vettel may have been on the receiving end this time but he's been guilty of worse. Taking out his teammate in Turkey, taking Button out at Spa. Go back further and you'll find him rear ending another driver, can't remember who, at Casino in Monaco. There are other accidents involving Vettel if you can be bothered looking back.

 

[vintly]

If he had only made contact with Vettel once in Russia we wouldn't even be talking about him..

I suspect Vettel's race was as good as over from the first collision - it was quite big and would have caused considerable damage, maybe already a puncture before the second impact, so not sure I go along with your comment above. And yes Vettel has caused crashes in the past, like most (all?) drivers. It's about the balance between success and mistakes, and how you learn – like in any sport, or anything else for that matter, that counts. To reiterate, I hope Kvyat gets a chance to shine soon, to clean off the sticky mud from last weekend.

 

[Kewee]

vintly ..... When I said Vettel backed off the power suddenly I'm sure your right, he would have been nursing a damaged car. The point I was suggesting was regardless of the reason, Vettel backing off took Kyvat by surprise.

 

[vintly]

Can't disagree with that Kewee.

Aside from hoping Kvyat makes good soon, I'm also in favour of maximum drama. I don't pay Sky Sports to see nice people being nice! So crash away my pretties. Race well or crash well - either is fine by me. No mediocrity required, just the extremes if you please, many thanks.

 

[FB]

James Allen reckons Kvyat is out for 2017.

Daniil Kvyat in firing line after home Grand Prix howler – How much will it cost him?

 

[cider_and_toast]

Verstappen's already had a seat fitting I reckon.

 

[RasputinLives]

I think he was out before we even turned a wheel in 2016 if I'm honest.

Red Bulls main problem is that their crop of youngsters to bring into Torro Rossi ain't looking promising.