Over the winter, though, the enmity has apparently thawed. Webber will want to stick it where the sun don't shine.Ī full and proper coalition? Vettel and Webber ended last year barely on speaking terms, with the Australian insisting the team favoured his rival and Vettel denying everything. Gesture politics Vettel will want to keep his 'I'm No1' digit pointing firmly upwards. 'I don't see a chance for the others,' says Gerhard Berger (who, to be fair, is an old chum of Mateschitz). We predict Same drivers, same team, same Renault engine, quite possibly the same result – claiming pole position in 15 out of 19 races and winning nine of them. In the end we just try to save money.' But not trying too hard, given the figures above.

'The aim and the target is to make sure the No1 stays on the car,' he said, 'otherwise we have to invest at some point in changing the numbers. Vettel feels it's important for him to retain the coveted No1 driving number.

They predict The RB7 will do well to live up to last year's success but after Mark Webber took his new car for a spin for the first time he concluded 'the team has done a bloody awesome job'. Red Bull may not give you wings but it can give you a lot of money. That's 14 years of slightly complicated history, the last bid masterminded by the team principal, Christian Horner, whose diminutive great-grandfather Jack apparently once pulled a plum from a Christmas pie using only his thumb.įuelled by Marketing guru, motor sport fanatic and soft-drink mogul Dietrich Mateschitz, who has poured money into the project like sugary caffeinated mixer into a very large vodka, spending £79m on the team in 2008, £107m in 2009 and about £140m last year. In the rear-view mirror Red Bull were born in 2004 from the ashes of Jaguar Racing, who were born in 1999 from the ashes of Stewart Grand Prix, who were born in 1997.

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