Red Bull Racing
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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Marks best chance yet???
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:06:01:11:53:07 by willber.
A serious race preview from Redbull?? They are going into Turkey looking to handle some serious business! Go Redbull!
Ferrari 3-4
Brawn DNF
This would be better!
Or perhaps, Brawn 9-DNF, just to be fair?!!
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.
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...
http://www.patronisef1.com - My solution to F1's 'bore' problem.
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.
Blight, post a pic anyway. The english language is a curious beast. Just wondering, are the PJ's orange or the monkeys??
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.
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.
Vettel for WDC!!!
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 :-)
ooooooohhhhh jezza lenkoooooo you beeeeeauttttyyyyy!!!
