Posts Tagged ‘Red Bull Racing’
Vettel and Webber concludes testing
Having had less time on track than expected yesterday, Sebastian started the test this morning with Mark finishing the pre-season preparations in the afternoon. It was a similar programme for both drivers which the team successfully completed; establishing the final set-ups for the start of the season with varying fuel loads.
Ian Morgan, Head of Race [...]
Vettel completes planned programme
Sebastian Vettel completed his second day of the final pre-season test in Barcelona this afternoon in another day affected by rain.
Despite few laps being completed in the morning due to a mixture of rain showers and technical issues, the afternoon session proved more valuable, as the team worked on car set-up for the first race [...]
Sebastian Vettel suffers minor problem
The team undertook its second race weekend simulation and by the end of the session Sebastian had completed 125 laps.
Ian Morgan, Head of Race Engineering said:
“Today was almost a repeat of the race simulations we did with Mark yesterday and it all went pretty much to plan. We stopped the car again during the race [...]
Webber tops the time sheet in Barcelona
After the soggy conditions last week in Jerez, it was bright and sunny today in Barcelona. The team’s programme included a race weekend simulation within one day, as they ran through procedures for P3, qualifying and a race.
Ian Morgan, Head of Race Engineering said,
“Today was always planned as a race weekend simulation day, so we [...]
Webber: We learned a hell lot
With more sunshine in Jerez today and a dry race circuit, Mark Webber began testing the RB6 this morning with a series of long runs to evaluate three different Bridgestone tyre compounds.
After three successful runs, Mark’s fourth was stopped late morning when the car had an engine failure. The team lost around two and a [...]
Webber back driving
After torrential rain and lightening storms last night in Jerez (which saw the police resorting to boats on some local roads), there was bright sunshine today.
Mark was back driving the RB6 and began the day on extreme wet tyres, as conditions remained damp from the overnight rain. He then switched to intermediate tyres and by [...]
