Brain the size of a small planet, shy and retiring by nature, recently spotted drenched in champagne, Red Bull F1’s chief technical officer talks exclusively to the Red Bulletin.
Mark Webber reckons his chance of a maiden victory at Silverstone was taken from him in qualifying but claimed he had done the maximum possible to carve out another one-two.
Sebastian Vettel claimed his second victory of the season with a dominant lights-to-flag display at Silverstone and went on to hail the circuit as “fantastic” and the kind of venue where he has always dreamed of racing.
Red Bull Racing senior personnel dubbed today’s one-two result a “dream result” for the team, whose factory is a stone’s throw from Silverstone at Milton Keynes.
After yesterday’s shenanigans, it’s all gone a bit quiet on the political side of the paddock fence today almost as if, in celeb gossip mag style, the rowing couple had gone off to lick their wounds.
Mark Webber slammed Kimi Raikkonen for ruining a possible pole-winning final qualifying lap at Silverstone this afternoon, wondering whether the Finn had been “drinking some vodka”.
Rising this morning to the news that FOTA have decided that it’s their ball and they’ll play with it elsewhere, a man of a more poetic bent than I might have been struck by the symmetry of the timing of it all.
Sebastian Vettel admitted that his attempt to close in on championship leader Jenson Button was compromised by a first-lap driving error and a failed strategic decision.
Sebastian Vettel turned a troubled Friday into a stunning qualifying display to grab his second pole position of the season at the Turkish Grand Prix this afternoon.
Like London buses, you wait ages for an Adrian Newey press conference and then two come along at once… This is what the mighty brain had to say in Monaco.
With no in-season testing, the practice sessions have become more important this year but there’s a balance between covering as much ground as possible and zeroing in on the things that really count. Two teams reveal their approach.
Spanish GP podium-finisher Mark Webber reckons that thinking like a golfer is the key to success this season, particularly at the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix, one of the most challenging for F1 drivers.
Red Bull Racing chief technical officer Adrian Newey says his cars have the edge in raw pace on the season-dominating Brawn GP machines but they’re getting held up by others.
Spanish F1 fans have overtaken the Italian and British as the most passionate, most raucous, it’s just a shame that that’s all the overtaking going on at their grand prix.
With a first victory behind it, Red Bull Racing made the trip from Shanghai to Bahrain in good spirits. The Red Bulletin caught up with head of race engineering Ian Morgan.
For a team member, winning a grand prix means a lot of things: happiness, kudos, an easier life, bonus money and, almost inevitably, a hangover the morning after the race.
RBR’s rivals in Bahrain have admitted that the Milton Keynes-based outfit are now the team to beat in Formula One after Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber scored a historic first one-two victory in China last weekend.
In South-East Asia at this time of year it rains at dusk. It rains a lot. So when the cascade began on lap 22 of the Malaysian Grand Prix there was no great surprise.