Red Bull have handed Mark Webber a nice birthday present in announcing that the 35-year-old Australian will stay with the team through 2012…

Red Bull’s Mark Webber has said that he is relieved to see his teammate Sebastian Vettel beaten for the first time this season, after Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix. “Congratulations to Lewis,” said Webber. “It was good that someone finally… of course Seb is in the same team, but he’s been on a [...]

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has explained that cold tyres were the problem which saw Mark Webber crash out in Q1 ahead of tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix. The Australian will start from 18th on the grid. “It’s been a rotten day for Mark today,” said Horner. “This morning he had an electrical issue and [...]

Sebastian Vettel has said that he believes Red Bull have their KERS system to thank for his dramatic pole position ahead of tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s energy-recovering system had its 2011 debut today, with the team electing not to run with it in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and Vettel said that he [...]

Sebastian Vettel‘s team radio transmission following his sensational pole position at the Australian Grand Prix may have baffled some people, but I’d hazard a guess that the young German was replying to comments from Lewis Hamilton last week suggesting that Red Bull are “just a drinks company”. Vettel’s radio transmission was “we keep on working, we do [...]

World Champion Sebastian Vettel and teammate Mark Webber have unveiled the RB7, the car they will be driving throughout 2011, prior to the start of testing at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. Chief technical officer Adrian Newey explained some of the changes from the championship winning RB6 and the new RB7: “Preparing for the [...]

The FIA have published the entry list for the 2011 Formula 1 season, and there are still many gaps to be filled! Robert Kubica doesn’t have a teammate listed at Renault, with Rubens Barrichello also missing a teammate at Williams, although it is widely thought that GP2 champ Pastor Maldonado will fill this vacancy. Despite [...]

On opposite sides of the globe Red Bull’s drivers Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber and new Toro Rosso test driver Daniel Ricciardo have been performing in Red Bull demonstrations, with Vettel in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate and Aussies Webber and Ricciardo on home turf at the Perth Festival of Speed. Vettel took to [...]