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.
 
Horner says that Renault have reached the point where Mercedes were when Winter Testing started. Which completely rubbishes the notion that there is very little engine development going on. These Hybrid units are still very much being sorted out, and the thought that RBR/Renault could claw back the Mercedes advantage if only engine development was left completely unfettered is pure fantasy. Sure maybe they could spend 100's of Millions and bring a brand new prototype engine to the track before years end, but if that thing suffered the teething issues of the previous iteration, they wouldn't finish another race this year.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/28116193
 
Err, am I the only one who has seen this?

Sebastian Vettel has advised us that he will be leaving Infiniti Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season.

We want to warmly thank Sebastian for the incredible role he has played at Infiniti Red Bull Racing for the last six years.
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We’re pleased to announce that Daniel will be joined in the team for 2015 by another rising star from the Junior Programme, Daniil Kvyat.

I wonder where he's off to?
 

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Well Vettel to Ferrari then, and Alonso to Mclaren???

With regards to Vettel, I'm in two minds about this. On one hand, going to another team could reinforce his reputation if he does well there. However, on the other, this move could easily be portrayed as someone who has thrown his toys out of the pram after a bad year with the car, instead of helping to work it out.
 
Get your favourite drink ready ladies and gents, everytime someone connected with Red Bull Racing talks about the Red Bull "Family" this weekend, take a drink. You'll be drunk as a Lord in about half an hour of any TV coverage.
 
Dietrich Mateschitz has said that he won’t release Vettel to test for Ferrari at the Abu Dhabi test after the final race of the season, the Red Bull boss confirming that Vettel will be released on the 28th November, thus missing the two-day test on November 25th and 26th.

“Five days after the last race, Sebastian will be free.” said Mateschitz who also revealed to Speedweek, a magazine owned by Red Bull, that Vettel will also not have the latest technical updates in the final three races.


http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2014/...gine-rules-as-mateschitz-vetoes-ferrari-test/
 
Has Vettel actually been confirmed at Ferrari? Anyway, hell hath no fury like a billionaire scorned.
 
Well there have been many references to Ferrari, including the one above which mentions him not being able to attend the test, but no official confirmation.

It's all rather silly.
 
This is the silliest silly season for some time. Normally by Japan we've pretty much got everyone's intentions signed sealed and delivered. Why delay anything? Vettel's off, Alonso's off what's to hide ??
 
Now that could be interesting...
Of course it would also be held under floodlights what with it being Winter in Summer; hit the environmentalists with a double whammy!
Do Pirelli do ice tyres?
 
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