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 β€œRocky” 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.
 
"we need a strong second driver, if only for [in-race] tactics.”

They don't care about the contractor's title then.
Verstappen doesn't but Red Bull does because they need to justify the huge outlay being based at MK with an engine plant as well . Its the only thing to keep Horner in the job
 
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According to some sources Horner is no longer director of Red Bull Racing therefore he has severed all active connections with Red Bull.

The suggested rumour is he will takeover as team principal at Cadillac
 
I think Red Bull Racing will be sold to Ford

It was Horner who did not want the Porsche tie up and I dont think Red Bull Gmbh wants to fund two racing teams now
 
TBH it is alleged he was out already and relates to poaching Dunne illegally without approval and cost Red Bull a lot more money. Alex Dunne must feel like a complete idiot now
this would explain alot because from what id heard dunne was done. as wasnt it something like leaving mclaren because of an opportunity he couldnt turn down
 
I first saw it on YouTube yesterday that Red Bull already decided he was going over the farcical Dunne deal and Lindblad. It was quoted in the Telegraph so very reliable source


Verstappen is basically on the market for 2027 if Red Bull car is a dog

One good news is Hadjar might feel less pressured

Jos Verstappen might finally be muzzled
 
so what's going on at red bull, nobody seems to know what is happening reports are that "Lambiase will not travel to races in 2026 due to his personal circumstances and instead will continue to work from Red Bull's Milton Keynes base"

seemingly these are things that could happen
1) Lambiase Stops being Max's Race engineer & moves on to a new Role
2) Lambiase Somehow Carries on being his Race Engineer but from Milton Keynes & not on the pitwall
 
You can't be race engineer from MK amd not the pitwall with the timezones differences to consider getting use to so option 1 sounds more plausible

Interesting now the news is out that Helmut chose to leave but that is 4 days after the original announcement to say this
 
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