Red Bull, F1 constructor

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says the Austrian brand will mainly look at its junior drivers for the future, rather than established Formula 1 stars.Red Bull is searching for the best driver to partner Max Verstappen in the future, due to incumbent Sergio Perez – who is under contract for next year – having struggled to match his team-mate lately.Perez scored only 41 points in the latest 12 ...

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The decision of several key figures at Red Bull Racing to leave the F1 team is exactly what Jos Verstappen feared at the beginning of the year, the former F1 driver has told Motorsport.com.At the start of the year, the father of three-time world champion Max Verstappen claimed that 'the team is in danger of being torn apart', so long as Christian Horner - who was accused by a female employee of ...

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Liam Lawson will race in the US Grand Prix next month after replacing Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull's sister Formula 1 team RB.It won't be the first time the Kiwi competes in F1 but, on this occasion, it's not just as a stand-in, and his arrival is seen as a test for Red Bull to find out if it has the right man for the future.So is Lawson the driver Red Bull needs? Our writers debate. Only time ...

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Christian Horner thinks Red Bull's poor Italian Grand Prix weekend may have been the low point that helped turn its 2024 season around.Red Bull's performance dip hit a new low in Monza where the RB20 was the fourth-fastest car, with Max Verstappen calling his car a "monster" as he became ever more pessimistic about his chances of holding off McLaren's Lando Norris in the championship.But the Italy ...

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Red Bull's Helmut Marko says the team is interested in retaining Daniel Ricciardo in some role following his Formula 1 exit.On Thursday Ricciardo was officially replaced at Red Bull's satellite RB team by reserve driver Liam Lawson.Lawson will partner Yuki Tsunoda from October's Austin round onwards as Red Bull weighs up its options for its long-term driver line-up at the main team.It will likely ...

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Red Bull and RB's decision to drop Daniel Ricciardo mid-season had nothing to do with him performing so badly that an immediate change was needed.RB team boss Laurent Mekies made it crystal clear last weekend that if the Australian had the car underneath him he needed, like in the Miami sprint this year, his pure speed was still there to make the most of it.Instead, the manoeuvring that has ...

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Helmut Marko believes Daniel Ricciardo lost his "killer instinct" in the years away from Red Bull as he explained the Australian's RB exit.On Thursday, it was confirmed Ricciardo has been replaced at Red Bull's RB team for the remainder of 2024 by reserve driver Liam Lawson, with the New Zealander joining Yuki Tsunoda from Austin's US Grand Prix onwards.The news all but marks the end of a 14-year ...

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The McLaren Formula 1 team has announced it has signed Red Bull's chief strategist Will Courtenay as its new sporting director.Courtenay initially joined the Milton Keynes-based team as a systems engineer in 2003 under its Jaguar guise, but moved to a strategy role once the team became Red Bull in 2005.After a two-decade stint at Red Bull, in which he rose to become the world champion squad's head ...

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With Red Bull’s RB20 known to have weaknesses over bumps and kerbs, the mindset heading into the event had always been one of damage limitation.But things seemed even bleaker after Friday practice when both Verstappen and Sergio Perez seemed to be out of sorts with their cars.They were both unhappy with the handling, the tyres were not firing up and there was a real risk that they were going to ...

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McLaren team boss Andrea Stella has called for the relationship between Red Bull and RB to be “addressed” after Daniel Ricciardo’s “peculiar” fastest lap at the Singapore Grand Prix stole a point away from race winner Lando Norris.With the McLaren dominant around Marina Bay, Norris was looking at taking eight points out of Max Verstappen’s lead at the top of the drivers’ ...

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Max Verstappen thinks it will take a “small miracle” for Red Bull to win in Singapore this weekend.With Red Bull enduring ongoing balance problems with its RB20 car, the world championship leader has been without a victory since the Spanish Grand Prix in June.As the squad returns to the Marina Bay circuit – the only venue on the calendar Verstappen has not won at – a year on from its ...

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Lando Norris insists he is still the driver with "nothing to lose" in his Formula 1 title fight with Max Verstappen.While slowly reeling in Verstappen in the drivers' championship, Norris has not taken full advantage of the drop-off in pace of the Red Bull in recent races.He heads into Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix still 59 points behind, meaning he needs to outscore the Dutchman by an average of ...

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Red Bull F1 team boss Christian Horner recently likened correlation issues between his team’s wind tunnel, CFD data and real RB20 car to having three watches that all tell different times.Key to making progress on track was finding out which device was the most accurate, and then trusting that to help deliver gains.In real-life terms, Red Bull’s conclusion was that its wind tunnel data had ...

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It’s well known in Formula 1 that if you stand still with your car then you end up going backwards, because others will simply out develop you.But the same is true for team structures too. As the demands of grand prix racing have changed in recent years, and squads experience a perpetual revolving door of personnel, it would be a mistake to become stuck in your ways with how things are run just ...

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Max Verstappen’s race engineer GianPiero Lambiase is to be promoted into an expanded role at Red Bull as part of a restructuring of the team’s Formula 1 trackside operations, Motorsport.com can reveal.In the wake of the news that sporting director Jonathan Wheatley will be leaving at the end of the season to take up the team principal position at Sauber, Red Bull has elected to revise its ...

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Red Bull has had to abandon plans for fan-inspired livery takeovers at the Singapore and USA grands prix because of concerns about the extra weight of new paint schemes.The Milton Keynes-based squad had invited its followers to come up with bespoke livery designs that would be run at the British, Singapore and USA races this season.Winners would not only get to see their ideas realised on the ...

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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has insisted the reigning Formula 1 constructors' championship-winning outfit must now "attack" after being leapfrogged by McLaren.Oscar Piastri's victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, along with Lando Norris' recovery from 15th on the grid to fourth, Sergio Perez's late-race tangle with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen's uncharacteristic weekend ...

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World champion Max Verstappen says a set-up change that made his Red Bull car bounce was behind his muted qualifying session for Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Verstappen looked to be in the hunt with the Ferraris and McLarens all weekend but struggled to wring a great lap out of his Red Bull RB20 when it mattered in qualifying.The Dutchman only managed sixth, 0.658s behind polesitter Charles ...

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Red Bull boss Christian Horner insists that team orders between his two drivers are clear and that Sergio Perez “knows 100%” that he will be playing a support role to Max Verstappen this season.Confusion still reigns over McLaren’s own Papaya Rules and just how and when Oscar Piastri will aid Lando Norris in his bid to overhaul the 62-point gap to Verstappen at the top of the drivers’ ...

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The FIA's clearance of the McLaren and Mercedes front wings - after clarification was sought over their flexibility - will "encourage" Red Bull to follow a similar route, says Christian Horner.After the Monza race, Red Bull and Ferrari wanted a definitive answer from the FIA over the legality of McLaren's and Mercedes' front wing designs, with the understanding that these were flexing ...

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Sergio Perez says his Red Bull Formula 1 car feels "more together" after being a close second in Azerbaijan Grand Prix practice.Perez was pipped to the top spot in Friday's second practice session by just 0.006s by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, having also been on the pace in the morning.The Mexican has been under fire this year for struggling much more with the Red Bull RB20's balance issues than ...

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Red Bull has introduced a revised floor for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as it seeks to arrest its current slide and defend its Formula 1 championships.The team has managed just two podium finishes in the last six races, as its form nosedived in recent races. This has put the team's retention of the constructors' title under scrutiny from McLaren and Ferrari, while a fourth drivers' title for Max ...

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In a year when so many Formula 1 teams have hit different upgrade problems, there is one common theme among them: car balance headaches.From Max Verstappen complaining his RB20 has turned into a ‘monster’, to Ferrari’s return of high-speed bouncing, to the Mercedes becoming nervous in qualifying and Aston Martin losing its way for a bit.Each team has experienced a near identical scenario of ...

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Red Bull is pretty open that it needs to quickly turn around the performance of its RB20 if it is not going to lose both Formula 1 championships this year.But saying what it wants is one thing, doing it is another – especially because it does not yet have a clear explanation on what has gone wrong.We can forget wild conspiracy theories about the FIA asking for devices to be removed from its car ...

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has warned Red Bull’s rivals to write them off at their peril, labelling the team’s recent drop-off in performance as “really weird” while praising Max Verstappen’s individual ability for keeping the car competitive.Having set the pace earlier in the season, Red Bull is now struggling to compete at the top of the field, with Verstappen finishing sixth having ...

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