Seeing Red

Red Bull’s two current F1 pilots have taken different paths towards there upcoming 2009 plans with Mark Webber having announced that he’ll stay with Red Bull Racing thru 2009 while F1’s elder statesman David Coulthard has announced his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of this season. Speculation suggests that Sebastian Vettel will move up to take the Scot’s vacated seat next year…

Red Bull RB4

Eschewing the glitzy launch furor of the larger Formula 1 Constructors, Red Bull Racing simply rolled out their newest challenger, the RB4 at the just completed testing in Jerez, with Formula 1's elder stateman DC behind the wheel...

Coulthard’s Red Wings

Did you see the unbelievably STUPID overtaking maneuver that David Coulthard tried on Alexander Wurz with just eight laps remaining in the Australian Grand Prix. I’m thinking this isn’t one of Red Bulls planned for product endorsements…

I have just seen the incident in pause mode on the old VCR and talk about Jimi Hendrix’s lyrics “Tire Tracks ALL Across your Back!” It is utterly amazing to see an entire Formula 1 car cross completely OVER the nose of another with the actual wheels passing mere inches from the unsuspecting driver.

And it’s even more amazing that the extremely lanky Austrian’s crash helmet wasn’t impacted. Even more interesting was seeing Wurz’s quick reactions as he pulls his hands off of the steering wheel as DC goes crashing by!

I enjoyed Steve Matchett’s comments onWind Tunnel, stating that DC is frustrated… The Red Bull cars aren’t exactly living up to all of the hoped for performance of an Adrian Newey design and DC is frustrated as the sun is setting on his racing career…

Yet all I can say is, Smooth Move DC!

Webber’s Sour Grapes?

Mark Webber has once again gone for the jugular with his latest comments towards his previous employer Williams.

Webber claims that Williams is now nothing more than Toyota’s “B” team and doesn’t expect the Grove squad to pull itself out of last years abyss, since Toyota will not wish to be out-gunned by their customer team…

And although Webber does have a point, I surely hope that he’s partly wrong since I’d like to see Nico Rosberg kick some tail this season!

Ironically Weber’s current team is also utilizing customer engines, so does this make Red Bull Racing Renault’s “B” Team?

Have Money, Will Travel

Although Robert Doornbos has been confirmed as Red Bull Racing’s test and reserve driver… Doornbos is itching to continue racing this year…

With both of RBR’s Formula 1 race seats spoken for and the cancellation of Friday third drivers, Doornbos is hoping to land a ride in Champ Cars. And his rumoured $5-10 million of sponsorship backing should easily solve the problem of buying a ride in the beleaguered series which still doesn’t have a full grid confirmed for 2007! (Can you say Forsythe?)

Red Bull Racing RB2

Red Bull Racing unveiled the team’s 2007 challenger at the Circuit de Catalunya last week. The RB3 is the first totally new Adrian Newey design for the team, which he’s focused on since last summer…

Mark Webber gave the RB3 its initial shakedown test while Formula 1’s new senior driver “DC” (David Coulthard) was also on hand for the unveiling...

Now opposing Formula 1 Constructors will be watching for the junior teams (Scuderia Toro Rosso) launch in regards to chassis cloning…

To read about Honda Racing's 2007 Launch, see: Honda RA107

Webber Wings It

Mark Webber got his first taste of Red Bull’s “high test” energy drinks the past weekend when he sampled the taste of going 400kph in an aeroplane in Perth, Australia…

Red Bull’s Six Seater

In another marketing ploy, Red Bull apparently took a page from the SPEED channel’s Trading Paint special where Jeffery “Pretty Boy” Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya swapped rides…
In what Vitantonnio Luzzi claimed “ORGASMIC!” Red Bull recently arranged for their Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 ace Luzzi and Risi Suzuki MotoGP rider John Hopkins to swap rides for the day at Valencia. Both racers are currently under contract with Red Bull…

Klien rejects Red Bull offer

Despite being offered a fully funded Red Bull ride with champ Car’s PKV Racing in 2007, Christian Klien has declined Dietrich Mateschitz’s rather blunt suggestion to pack his bags for America…

Understandably the young Austrian wishes to remain in F1 and will now focus upon landing either a testing role or securing a race drive with one of the remaining F1 “minnow’s?” With rumours suggesting that Anthony Davidson will move to Super Aguri in 2007 the only seat remaining available would be with the newly acquired ex-Midland F1 operation.