Red Bull

Between 2010 and 2013, Red Bull won four constructors' titles and four drivers' championships with Sebastian Vettel, who at the end of '13 equalled Alberto Ascari's record of nine consecutive grand prix wins.<br>However, no Red Bull driver has come to even within 100 points of the title since the hybrid era began the following year.<br>Despite this, Verstappen - who has won eight races for Red ...

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The former Scuderia Toro Rosso matched its best ever constructors' championship finish with sixth place, while both Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly secured podium finishes in high attrition races.<br>With both Red Bull and Toro Rosso using the same Honda power unit – after diverging in 2018 when the Italian team first went to Honda – last season the two organisations shared more components than ...

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Following in the footsteps of Ferrari signing Charles Leclerc to a new deal, what promised to be a potentially seismic 2021 silly season with top-line drivers up for grabs now looks more muted. For Verstappen, the new deal comes after a promising first year for Red Bull using Honda power and demonstrates his faith that Red Bull can put up a consistent title fight in the future.<br>Jack Benyon is ...

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Following rules clarification requests from teams, motor racing's governing body issued a number of technical directives towards the end of last season explaining what competitors were and were not allowed to do with engine tricks.<br>Amid intense scrutiny on how Ferrari had enjoyed a sizeable power advantage through the second half of the campaign, rivals were exploring potential grey areas in ...

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The Dutchman, who became part of Red Bull's junior programme in 2014 and was handed an F1 drive with its junior team Toro Rosso the year after, was promoted to the energy drink giant's main F1 outfit during the 2016 season.<br>He has won eight grands prix since and bagged a best finish of third place in the drivers' championship standings, achieved this past year following Red Bull's switch to ...

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An emergent superstar of grand prix racing, Verstappen has usually ranked second only to Lewis Hamilton in team bosses’ and experts’ estimations over the past three years, but has not had the package to fight for the drivers’ championship.<br>He finished a career-high third in the standings last year following Red Bull’s switch from Renault engines to Honda, and though he remained some 135 ...

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Albon, who contested his first season in grand prix racing last year, was promoted to the main Red Bull outfit from Toro Rosso midway through the campaign to replace Pierre Gasly.<br>He scored 76 points to Verstappen’s 97 over the nine remaining races of the season, although the Dutchman’s advantage in terms of pure pace was clear and he ended the year responsible for all three of Red Bull’s ...

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The Japanese manufacturer has been lauded by Red Bull for producing the gains it promised this season, thanks to an aggressive development programme that included three specification upgrades.<br>Although Honda had initially wanted to start the season with what eventually became the Spec 2 engine, it has hit the schedule it agreed with Red Bull before the winter of 2018/19, and Motorsport.com ...

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In its first year with Honda power, expectations for 2019 weren’t stellar – even though Helmut Marko claimed it would win five races! In fact, Red Bull Racing won three – all with undisputed lead driver Max Verstappen (Austria, Germany and Brazil) – while Pierre Gasly’s poor form of the first half of the season, which resulted in his demotion to Toro Rosso, meant the team actually just ...

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Albon made his F1 debut at the start of 2019 driving for Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso, a chance he had to negotiate his way out of a signed Nissan Formula E contract to take.<br>A strong first half of the season, combined with Pierre Gasly underperforming a Red Bull, led to a shock mid-season call-up for Albon to partner Max Verstappen in the race-winning senior team.<br>Albon has earned a ...

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The Red Bull-Renault partnership won four consecutive F1 title doubles from 2010 to 2013, but that relationship soured as Renault struggled in the V6 turbo-hybrid era and Red Bull grew increasingly frustrated at what it felt was a lack of progress in performance and reliability.<br>Red Bull took advantage of McLaren’s split from Honda to get junior team Toro Rosso to partner with the Japanese ...

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Being Max Verstappen's teammate at Red Bull was always going to be the toughest job on the grid. Having to partner the Dutchman unexpectedly after just one full season did nothing to alleviate the challenge for Pierre Gasly, who was promoted to a Red Bull drive after Daniel Ricciardo decided to move to Renault against all expectations.<br>Even Red Bull boss Christian Horner admitted Gasly's ...

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Red Bull scored three victories with Max Verstappen in 2019, after recovering from a slow start in its first year with Honda power.<br>Honda has progressed sufficiently to allow Red Bull to challenge Mercedes and Ferrari in race trim over the course of 2019 and has narrowed its performance deficit in qualifying too.<br>Speaking to Red Bull-owned ServusTV this week, Red Bull's motorsport advisor ...

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Two-time Japanese Super Formula champion Yamamoto made his F1 debut earlier this year, driving a Toro Rosso in the first practice session at the Japanese Grand Prix so Honda could field its own driver at its home race.<br>It also allowed both parties to evaluate Yamamoto's performance in a grand prix car, and the 31-year-old's impressive debut and his eligibility for a superlicence has made it ...

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The development of the Honda F1 power unit has been a key talking point of the 2019 season, as the marque has enjoyed a successful year with Red Bull.<br>Having enjoyed three victories this season - Austria’s win being the first since 2006 for the Japanese manufacturer - Honda has also pursued an aggressive upgrade strategy.<br>But the way that Red Bull has laid out the power unit inside its ...

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The 19-year-old will receive a test in an Aston Martin Red Bull Racing Formula 1 car, a drive in an Aston Martin Vantage GTE World Endurance Championship challenger, a cheque for £200,000, full British Racing Drivers’ Club membership and an Arai helmet as his prize.<br>The 2019 Award marks Aston Martin’s first year as title partner, with Hoggard beating fellow finalists Enaam Ahmed, Jamie ...

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The Dutchman is well aware that in recent seasons his outfit has often been playing catch-up against rivals who start campaigns in much stronger shape.<br>He knows it cannot afford to do that next year if it is to mount a serious title bid, during a campaign where he has to make up his mind about what he does from 2021.<br>Reacting to comments from his team boss Christian Horner that this year was ...

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Although Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko had predicted five grand prix wins heading into the campaign, Horner was more circumspect.<br>Max Verstappen won three races and finished third in the world championship, while the team maintained its third place in the constructors’ table, albeit with 417 points compared to the 419 it logged the year prior.<br>That was due mainly to a poor ...

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A letter to the FIA from Red Bul chief engineer Paul Monaghan sent on October 22nd triggered the first of what became a series of technical directives distributed to all the teams, and which are intended to close any potential loopholes and ensure that there's a standard interpretation of the regulations.<br>Just before the start of the Abu Dhabi GP, a routine check of declared fuel loads, based ...

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As reported by Motorsport.com earlier this week, Honda must cut its spending in order to secure the long-term future of its F1 programme.<br>It was waiting for the publication of F1's range of new regulations for 2021 before pushing forward with a decision, so it could begin evaluating the cost of being part of the next rules cycle.<br>Honda's longer-term commitment to F1 has still not been ...

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Max Verstappen triumphed ahead of Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly at Interlagos last weekend to deliver Honda its first 1-2 finish in F1 since the 1991 Japanese GP.<br>The recent run of strong form, which included Verstappen delivering a pole position-setting time in Mexico, comes against the backdrop of Honda weighing up whether or not to commit to F1 after 2020.<br>Its Japanese bosses are having to ...

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Gasly spent the first half of the 2019 season with RBR, logging a best finish of fourth at Silverstone, before being replaced by Alex Albon after the summer break.<br>Marko says that the Frenchman, who took a sensational second place in Brazil, has got his career back on track after his demotion.<br>“He’s recovered, and now we see the real Pierre,” Marko told Motorsport.com. “We always ...

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Albon produced arguably the best race of his rookie F1 season at Interlagos to run as high as second before the end of the final safety car period.<br>It all went wrong on the penultimate lap though when he was tapped into a spin by Lewis Hamilton and dropped down the order to finish 14th. Hamilton was later handed a five-second penalty for his part in the incident.<br>But despite the day ending ...

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The Milton Keynes-based outfit sent a crew from its live demo team to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City in Russia to undergo a week of cosmonaut training to prepare for the pitstop.<br>Using an Ilyushin II-76K training plane, which experiences zero gravity for around 20 seconds when it is put into a parabolic flight at 33,000 feet, the crew successfully changed tyres on an ...

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Rival teams had singled out Red Bull engine supplier Honda's advantage at Interlagos last weekend, as Max Verstappen took pole position and then went on to win the race.<br>With the higher altitude affecting power units in different ways, many suspected the thinner air played in to Honda's hands against Mercedes and Ferrari. However, Horner thinks that there were setup differences between cars ...

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