2013 Car Launches: Red Bull present their RB9 challenger at Milton Keynes (+Pictures)

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Red Bull has launched its 2013 car, the RB9, at its base in Milton Keynes.

The latest Adrian Newey-designed car features a stepped nose like last year's car but without the driver cooling slot, as well as a tightly packaged rear end. Newey said the car does have a vanity panel - a thin carbon fibre fairing that other teams have used to disguise the step - but that "it doesn't extend too far

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Vettel celebrates third consecutive drivers’ crown in Graz (Pictures+Video)

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Sebastian Vettel celebrates his third consecutive drivers’ crown with a special show run through the streets of Graz, Austria.



Styria’s capital city Graz became the focal point for the international motorsport world on Saturday (Dec 1st) when triple Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel paid a visit to the Austrian home of his racing team Red Bull Racing. After a rendezvous with the

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2012 US GP: Hamilton beats Vettel to win the inaugural race in Austin

Monday, November 19, 2012

(FIA) Lewis Hamilton won a tense rather than spectacular US Grand Prix as Red Bull Racing picked up the Constructors’ Championship.



While Hamilton was the star of the show, Sebastian Vettel took second and Fernando Alonso third, ensuring their battle for the Drivers’ Championship goes down to the wire in Brazil. Vettel, who had been fastest in every session up until today, controlled

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New flexi saga questions 'rubber Red Bull' (+Video)

Thursday, November 8, 2012

The seemingly never-ending saga about bendy formula one cars is back in the media spotlight, and as ever championship leader Red Bull is right in the middle.

Multiple videos depicting the front nose of the world champions' 2012 RB8 car have emerged in the wake of last weekend's Abu Dhabi grand prix, showing the extreme tip of the front nose section to be apparently made of some sort of 'rubbery

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2012 Abu Dhabi GP: Vettel excluded from qualifying, starts from the pitlane

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Sebastian Vettel has been sent to the back of the grid after stewards excluded him from the results of qualifying. Vettel had stopped on track at the end of the session, having qualified in a provisional third place.The stewards agreed that his actions were acceptable under the rules of force majeure, however the post-session scrutineering report stated that an insufficient amount of fuel

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Indian GP 2012: Vettel heads third successive front row for Red Bull

Saturday, October 27, 2012

(AFP) - Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel completed a third successive Red Bull front row lockout on Saturday when he took pole position for Sunday's Indian Grand Prix ahead of his team-mate Mark Webber.

The 25-year-old German, who is seeking to become the youngest triple champion in F1 history, made an error on his first flying lap in the top-ten shootout but responded with a

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2012 Korean GP: Webber beats Vettel to pole

Saturday, October 13, 2012

(Reuters) - Australian Mark Webber seized pole position for the South Korean Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday with title-chasing Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel having to settle for second place on the starting grid.Ferrari's championship leader Fernando Alonso qualified fourth and will share the second row with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.



Alonso leads double world champion Vettel by

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Vettel claims third Japanese Grand Prix win, while Alonso retires

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday and blew the Formula One championship wide open with five races remaining after Ferrari's Fernando Alonso spun out at the start.Alonso's pre-race lead over reigning champion Vettel, chalking up his second win in a row and third of the season, was cut to four points from 29 with the Spaniard in danger of falling behind in South

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Japanese GP 2012: Vettel claims fourth successive Suzuka pole

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Sebastian Vettel will start the Japanese Grand Prix from pole position for the fourth year in a row as Red Bull lock out the front row at Suzuka.



Mark Webber was second quickest ahead of Jenson Button for McLaren. Home hero, Kamui Kobayashi qualified a brilliant fourth and will be elevated to third due to Button's 5-place grid penalty.



A spin for Kimi Raikkonen at Spoon curve ruined

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Sebastian Vettel wins Singapore Grand Prix after Hamilton retires

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel survived an incident-packed Singapore Grand Prix to reignite his world title defense with a thrilling victory on Sunday.



After two safety cars, crashes and the shock retirement of title-challenger Lewis Hamilton, Formula One's youngest double champion finished in front of McLaren's Jenson Button for only his second win of the season.



Championship leader

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Mateschitz asks Renault to separate from its alternator supplier

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Sebastian Vettel retired from the 2012 Italian Grand Prix due to alternator failureThe reigning champions have been dogged by a recurring reliability problem in 2012, which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at Valencia and crucial points at Monza. The faulty component, which has also failed in other Renault-powered cars this year including the Lotus of Romain Grosjean (at Valencia) and the Pirelli

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Casio Launches Latest Limited Edition Red Bull Racing Edifice Watch In Monza (Pictures & Video)

Friday, September 7, 2012

Ahead of the Italian Grand Prix weekend, on Thursday (Sep 6) Casio hosted a quiz-based launch for the EQS-A500RB, the latest Limited Edition EDIFICE watch built in partnership with Red Bull Racing.Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing’s double F1 World Champion, Team Principal Christian Horner, and former Formula One drivers Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert all participated in the ‘Speed and

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2012 Mid-Season Review – Ferrari, Lotus and Red Bull

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The season has been characterised by the openness illustrated by seven different winners in the first seven races and by the possibility for mid-field teams to mix it at the front and score podiums and wins. So far seven different teams have put a driver on the podium, while 11 different drivers have stood up there. This is a very healthy trend for the sport.

The cars were close enough on

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David Coulthard drives around Copenhagen: Video

Sunday, August 5, 2012

As a prelude to the Historic Grand Prix in Denmark, David Coulthard takes the Red Bull Racing Running Showcar for a quick spin around Copenhagen.VideoSnapshotsvia Red Bull

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Hungarian GP: Hamilton dominates qualifying at Hungaroring

Saturday, July 28, 2012

(AFP)
Briton Lewis Hamilton confirmed that he and McLaren have recovered their form when he swept to a dominant pole position in Saturday's closely-fought qualifying session for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Driving with supreme speed and consistency, the 27-year-old Briton clocked a best time of one minute and 20.953 seconds to top the times ahead of nearest rival Frenchman Romain Grosjean in

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FIA closes Red Bull 'Engine maps' loophole

Thursday, July 26, 2012

After the 'Floor holes', the illegal brake cooling ducts, the 'Double floor' (which is legal!), defending constructors' champions Red Bull have now been forced to change their engine mapping for this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.Motor racing's ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA), on Thursday [July 26] confirmed a clarification to the technical regulations that effectively

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2012 German GP: Final Race Result after Vettel incurs penalty

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sebastian Vettel has been stripped of his podium finish in the German Grand Prix after being hit with a time penalty for his his move on Jenson Button in the closing stages.The Red Bull driver took second on the penultimate lap with a move around the outside into the hairpin but ran off track on the exit of the corner in order to make the move stick.Button was clearly angered by the move on the

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Red Bull escape penalty over engine maps at Hockenheim

Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull team escaped a penalty at his home German Grand Prix on Sunday after stewards cleared them of a possible breach of the technical rules.The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) had raised concerns, only hours before the 10th race of the season, about the engine torque mapping on the cars of Vettel and his Australian team mate

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Webber penalised five places for the German Grand Prix

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Mark Webber, second in the Formula One world championship, has been penalised five starting places for the German Grand Prix after his Red Bull team broke the rules on gearbox changes."(Webber) did finish the last race in Silverstone and this change was before the five consecutive events expired," said the FIA technical delegate in a statement. "Therefore this does not comply with ....the Formula

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Red Bull RB5 Showcar at Karlsruhe Lecture Theatre

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Red Bull Racing's Head of Car Engineering Paul Monaghan gave a lecture to 1,000 eager engineering students at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (K.I.T) in Germany last night. His visual aid for the evening? An RB5 Showcar of course.Paul delivered the lecture on Formula One engineering and then took questions from the floor which ranged from how brake temperatures are measured, aerodynamics

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