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Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
By Ian Lockwood
June 1 2009
Christian Horner talks about the challenges of the upcoming Turkish Grand Prix and the importance of Red Bull Racing taking the fight to Brawn GP.

Christian Horner, Team Principal:

"In Istanbul, the RB5 will essentially be in the same specification as in Monaco, with a few minor aero updates. Istanbul Park is a fast and flowing track with the particularly challenging Turn 8 and a relatively slow final section - it therefore has some similarities to Barcelona.

"This is an important race in the Championship and our target is to challenge the Brawns who have had a remarkable run so far. It was also clear at the last two races that Ferrari have made a significant step forward and I think we can expect them to play a key role this weekend, especially as it's a race they've won for the past three years.

"The high-speed Turkish track represents a completely different challenge to Monaco and it should be better suited to the strengths of our car. Mark was competitive at this circuit last year and Sebastian made his F1 debut in Turkey in 2007, as a 'Friday-driver' for BMW, topping the time sheet in both sessions.

"It will be important for us to achieve a strong result and our objective has to be to reduce the gap to the Championship leaders. We've been competitive at all the circuits so far this season, even though at a couple of races our performance has been compromised by cars equipped with KERS.

"Management of the softer tyres in the inevitably high Turkish temperatures will also be a key factor, as indeed it has been at most of the races so far. It will be important not to abuse the tyres in the high-speed turns and this could play a key role in the final result. We look forward to the weekend, it should be a really interesting race."

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Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: Racing Bulls (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 09:11

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Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: willber (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 09:45

Ok our predictions for monaco glory were more emotional than anything else. Logically this circuit should suit our car/aero alot better.
Marks best chance yet???



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:06:01:10:53:07 by willber.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 09:56

Silverstone will be even better, but hopefully Turkey will be good too.

A serious race preview from Redbull?? They are going into Turkey looking to handle some serious business! Go Redbull!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: jez33 (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 10:02

As much as Silverstone will suit RB5 the assumption that "Silverstone will be even better" assumes that the other teams development pace is linear and has a one value correlation relative to RBR.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: webbull (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 10:23

Looks like Jez has found his next argument (Sm119)

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: webbull (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 10:26

argument for the sake of argument that is. Seriously mate we're all getting a bit tired of it.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: blight (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 10:35

RB 1-2
Ferrari 3-4
Brawn 5-6

=)

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: willber (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 10:55

Quote:
blight
RB 1-2
Ferrari 3-4
Brawn 5-6

=)


if only!!!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: Whitey*~@ (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 13:11

RB 1-2
Ferrari 3-4
Brawn DNF

This would be better!

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Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: SydneyF1Fan (IP Logged)
Date: 01/06/2009 13:17

I was going to say that, Whitey!!

Or perhaps, Brawn 9-DNF, just to be fair?!!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: blight (IP Logged)
Date: 02/06/2009 02:28

If we dont, I'll post a pic of me in OMP's. *shudder*

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 03/06/2009 14:06

Quote:
As much as Silverstone will suit RB5 the assumption that "Silverstone will be even better" assumes that the other teams development pace is linear and has a one value correlation relative to RBR.

My comment has nothing to do with development. As Brundle said after Bahrain GP, and I agree, the teams don't actually find that much time developing through a season. Maybe 4 tenths, 5 tenths, more if you start off at a lower point, like Renault last season. The variations of the order from track to track are more down to track characteristics, rather then development.

Silverstone will be the strongest track for RBR because it has the most fast corners, the whole first sector, and some more later in the lap, and few slow corners etc. Top speed is nothing, it's all about mid corner speed, more so then any other circuit. The only problem for Redbull is that there isn't more tracks like this on the calender.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: Palor (IP Logged)
Date: 03/06/2009 14:54

Horner said: "In Istanbul, the RB5 will essentially be in the same specification as in Monaco, with a few minor aero updates."


Brawn said: “Development work on the BGP 001 car has continued apace at the factory and we will be bringing a new front wing to Turkey along with some aerodynamic updates and new rear suspension elements,”

I think that RB needs to have a more aggressive developments...

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: LoudHoward (IP Logged)
Date: 04/06/2009 01:01

Go back a race, we had a whole new diffuser and floor. Making a trend on things on a single bit of information is a bit ragh.

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Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: SoliRossi (is200) (IP Logged)
Date: 04/06/2009 01:31

As much as Silverstone will suit RB5 the assumption that "Silverstone will be even better" assumes that the other teams development pace is linear and has a one value correlation relative to RBR.

No it does not assume anything about development pace. That was not even mentioned, that said we have quiet clearley developed as well as anyone out there, evidenced through maintaining our position in the WCC over a varying array of tracks.

What it 'assumes' is that the charachteristics of Silverstone should suit our car even more so than the charachteristics of Turkey. But its widley accepted that we should be strong in Turkey regardless.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: willber (IP Logged)
Date: 04/06/2009 05:04

Turkey and Silverstone will be a good test for our new floor/DDD. This is where our development will (hopefully) shine.

Blight, post a pic anyway. The english language is a curious beast. Just wondering, are the PJ's orange or the monkeys??

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 04/06/2009 22:25

Q. Turn 8 must have been horrendous in last year's car, presumably you're now looking forward to it?

JB: I am, but it's probably the weakest corner on the circuit for our car. I think that the Red Bull will be very competitive through there. If you look at Barcelona in the two high speed corners they were taking one and a half to two tenths out of us each of them, which is massive. Everyone says 'your car must be amazing' in high speed, but it's not compared to the Red Bull. So that's an area we need to work on, for sure. We're not as weak as the McLaren, for example, in high speed corners, but it's an area we've got to work on because it's not only going to gain or lose you a lot of time in Turn 8 because it's such a long corner, but it can damage the tyres if you haven't got the balance right.

I've been watching a lot of data from previous years. The good thing is there's only one high speed corner on the circuit. Coming here I was thinking Red Bull are going to be very, very strong - are we actually going to be able to touch them? But if you think about it, it's not a high speed circuit. There are so many long straights you think it's a high speed circuit, but it's only really Turn 8.

Q. So is that more of a worry for Silverstone then?

JB: Yeah, that is a bit of a worry, but I hear it's not so much of an issue, just one long corner, it's not as much of a problem as Silverstone.

Q. So are you concerned about Silverstone?

JB: Not really concerned, but we're going to have a lot of competition there and it won't be an easy race, that's for sure. But at the moment I'm not thinking about it too much. Let's think about this one for now. I'm sure we can sort out some of our issues in the high speed corners. We've got something different aerodynamically, the front wings are a bit different, and hopefully that will help us.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: jez33 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/06/2009 18:20

The Brawns will be hard to match since the car is enormously good in basically every type of corner.

You can lose relatively so much more in the slow corners than you can gain in the high speed section.

Watch closely RBR's S3 times tmw. I'm fairly certain that section is going to be the telling differentiator.

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: nuthabloodyozzie (IP Logged)
Date: 05/06/2009 18:26

Ummm...isn't S3 by far the smallest sector? I don't think we're going to see much difference there.

Vettel for WDC!!!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: f1man (IP Logged)
Date: 05/06/2009 23:29

webber for WDC mate !

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: f1man (IP Logged)
Date: 05/06/2009 23:51

i think brawn is just crappy as they wont be able to have 30 more fuel laps than everyone else and still stick it on pole by 1 and 2 tenths from everyone , here come the bul , its gonna bite you, here comes the bull were gonna fight you, here comes the bul, all other teams go fly your kites, dc to wear a kilt and well lucky for him there is wide screen tv's and so forth, to fit his jaw in, here comes the bull gonna catch the brawns from here on in, 13 races to go !, webber to outscore button by roughly 2.3 points per race to get that title , and here comes the bulls 1 and 2 all the way home :-)

Go bul , time to shine again and come on fets your turn to get your first 2nd place !!!


Jenson button, nottub nosej
mark webber, rebbew kram
sebastian vettel, lettev naitsabes
Rubens barrichello, ollehcirrab snebur

funny when spelt backwards, i guess i can only assume one of these guys will be WDC and one of the teams will be WCC

Lets wait

Jezza are you there mate?

where is the Jezza :-)

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: f1man (IP Logged)
Date: 05/06/2009 23:53

Jezza lenko you beauty !!!


ooooooohhhhh jezza lenkoooooo you beeeeeauttttyyyyy!!!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: growler (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 08:36

A clear example of why you shouldn't drink & post??!!

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Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: webbull (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 09:55

lol

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 12:31

Qualifying.. *check*
Race.. ? Need a good start!

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: ...trollie (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 12:33

Mark of the century

I think I have tracked down f1man,..he's in the yellow gurnsey

f1man

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: f1man (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 13:02

f1man link did not work trollie, anyways thats awesome :-) keep up the good work , remember everything is backwards this year bad qually equals great race from the webs :-)

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: ...trollie (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 13:18

f1man link did not work trollie

Ah,..It was just you in that Toyota add.

f1man

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: f1man (IP Logged)
Date: 06/06/2009 13:44

lol :-)

Re: Red Bull Racing Target Beating Brawn in Turkey
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 07/06/2009 15:08

No one can beat Brawn it seems. Too quick. sad smiley

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