Red Bull Racing
Dis-Oz-ppointing: Red Bull Racing Team Views
By Ian Lockwood
March 28 2010
A solitary ninth place finish from a 1-2 start is simply not good enough for a team with aspirations for the WDC & WCC.
Car 6 MARK WEBBER, Finish Position: 9th, Start Position: 2nd
“My start was tricky with a lot of wheel spin, but I was happy to get away with third. After the safety car, the race was going well. I wanted to get in on the lap that Sebastian pitted to change to dry tyres, but obviously whoever’s ahead has the call so I had to do an extra lap on the intermediates, which lost me a lot of time. Leaving the pits I couldn’t get second gear and went wide. I knew I had to make the moves on track. We then decided to pit which worked out okay. At the end of the race we caught the leading guys, but then we had the incident. I apologise to Lewis about that. I lost all down-force in the front of the car when I got close to them, the car lifted and I slid into the back of him. Unfortunately it had looked like a good finish, but it’s still very difficult to follow in these cars. I went down fighting, I wasn’t happy with sixth place and wanted to get a podium, but in the end it was a tough day for the team. We’ll be back.”
Car 5 SEBASTIAN VETTEL, Finish Position: DNF Start Position: 1st
“I felt that something was wrong one lap earlier than I went off. I had some sparks coming up from the front left wheel; we didn’t know what it was and so wanted to pit. Then, a couple of corners before, I had huge vibrations building up and as soon as I touched the brakes, I had some sort of failure going in to Turn 13 and ended up in the gravel. There was nothing I could have done, I lost the car and that was it. It’s a shame as I think we had the race in total control at every stage, even though the conditions were difficult. But to win you have to finish. It breaks my balls not to get the win, but there’s still a long way to go in this Championship. We’re working hard to get on top the reliability issues and we hope to have a solid race and see the chequered flag in Malaysia.”
CHRISTIAN HORNER, Team Principal: “Ultimately an extremely disappointing day. Having been in control of the race, the second in succession, Sebastian unfortunately retired with what looks like a wheel related issue (front left), which certainly cost him a comfortable race win today. It was cruel luck for him for the second year in a row here in Australia. With Mark, at his home GP, he dropped a place at the start, but then was making progress in the damp and tricky conditions. We had to leave him a lap longer than Sebastian to change to dry tyres, as he would have lost too much ground pitting immediately behind him. As the circuit went from intermediates to slicks, he made a couple of good passing moves on Massa, but then, unfortunately, he got tangled up with Hamilton for the first time in the race. After everything had settled down and with the position he was running in, we decided we had nothing to lose by putting another set of tyres on to let him have a go in the last ten laps, which Rosberg and Hamilton also elected to do. We got Rosberg at the stop but Lewis and Mark got tangled together which resulted in Mark having to pit again for a nose change. Ninth place after starting the race with two cars at the front of the grid is massively disappointing.”
FABRICE LOM, Renault, Principal Engineer Track Support: “What a sad result. The only good thing from today was that we didn’t have any engine problems, but that’s it. It’s a sad day – we had the tools to win the race. We need to tie all our work in all areas together in order to bounce back for the next race. I would like to congratulate Renault for their second place – well done to them.”
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queue for Whitey, he'll claim Mark was misquoted.
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yes, he made an error of judgement in that final mess up but there were many contributing factors which i won't go into here. during the race he set the fastest lap, pulled off some absolutely excellent passing manouvres on his rivals and still finished with a couple of points.
admittedly it could have been better but the team have to put their hands up also and say that they compromised his result by their rather stupid tyre call in the first place.
this debate need to get some perspective.
It was also intersting to see how much different the gear ratios that RBR were using compared to the other 'top four'. I watched them coming out of turn 9 & they were denfinately using a taller ratio for what must have been a 2nd gear corner & had much better drive out of that corner.
So all is not lost, especially in light of the fact that we have 2 extra races this year.
Ultimately you can't help bad luck & I would rather be posting this sort of stuff than excuses for why our car sucks.
It's going to be a good year!
BUT...
why on earth didnt webber and vetts pit same time webber just hang pretty for lets say 3 seconds and then put the slicks on instead of getting totally eaten up by field going from 2nd to what 6th?
what gives bull?
you say your a top team but the way you go about some things sometimes is questionable
as soon as jens started to red the laps sectors it they should of been in but webs and maybe even vets had to do 1,2 more laps
now that terrible!
Onwards & upwards, no point crying over what has passed.
