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Chinese GP race quotes: Red Bull Sunday, April 14th 2013, 11:09 GMT

 

 

Sebastian Vettel - 4th: "After the last stop, the team told me there was quite a big gap to the cars ahead, but also a big gap behind, so we thought we should go for it in the closing stages. When I came on to the long straight and saw Lewis at the other end turning into the hair pin I thought 'well, that's a bit too far', but obviously we had much more speed on the fresher tyres. It was a little bit disappointing to lose out by such a tiny bit; a few corners more and we could have tried something. Nonetheless, our strategy seemed to work today. We knew it would be difficult and that it was crucial to get clean laps, but we didn't in the first stint. I was faster than Nico (Hulkenberg) but if you follow another car you lean on your front tyres too much and it was hard to find the right compromise, but overall we can be happy."

 

Mark Webber - DNF: "The start of the race was going okay; we elected to get rid of the soft tyre quite quickly and then came back through the field pretty well. Regarding the incident with Jean-Eric, I was coming from a reasonable distance behind, Jean-Eric was really wide, but when we came close to the apex he wanted to hit it, which he is entitled to do, but by then I was committed to the inside and the incident happened. It was a couple of laps before our pit stop window, so I had to come in early. The guys thought the tyre was fixed when we left the stop, but it came off on the out lap. We have had a few problems this weekend; I think we could have done something from our start position today, but it wasn't meant to be."

 

Christian Horner, Team Principal: "Having opted to start the race on the prime tyre, it was always going to be a different race for us compared to the cars ahead of Sebastian. Unfortunately in the first stint, after Sebastian had passed Jenson, Hulkenberg managed to pass both Jenson and Sebastian in the DRS zone, which cost us quite a bit of time. Arguably the time lost then hurt Sebastian at the end of the race - and otherwise I am sure he would have been on the podium. But, nonetheless he drove a very strong race, managing his pace and tyres very well to come extremely close to taking the final podium place on the final lap. With Mark, having taken the opportunity to change the car significantly overnight and starting from the pit lame, we elected to stop on the first lap, change his soft tyres for the hard ones, and put him into clear air. His pace thereafter was excellent, he was coming back through the field extremely well, but unfortunately an incident with Jean-Eric Vergne caused front wing damage and a puncture. After changing the nose and all four tyres, Mark reported a problem with the right rear on the out lap, which had certainly left the pit lane fully torqued up. The right rear then came detached from the car and caused Mark to retire. Until we get the car back, it's not possible to yet conclude the exact cause."

 

Thierry Salvi, Renault: "Shanghai is a tough circuit for the engine, with it getting a full work out on all levels with the combination of straights and low speed corners. Although the result is not ultimately what we would have hoped for coming into the weekend, finishing under half a second from the podium, with the starting positions we had, has to be positive."

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Bahrain GP: Red Bull qualifying quotes Saturday, April 20th 2013, 13:29 GMT

 

 

Sebastian Vettel - 2nd: "I'm not disappointed with that. Well done to Nico, it was a strong lap and it was all his today. When I crossed the line I saw I was second on the screen and didn't know how much I was missing to pole as the lap was fine. When I got told the gap to P1, it was clear that even with a perfect lap he was unbeatable today, but nevertheless I'm very happy. We managed to save some tyres throughout qualifying and it will be about tyre degradation tomorrow, so we'll see what happens. It's good to start from the front."

 

Mark Webber - 5th: "I would have like to have got a bit more out of the car in that session and been a bit further up, but seventh with a penalty isn't the end of the world. We have a different tyre strategy to some of the others and it's a long grand prix, so let's see how we go. I'm proud to be starting my 200th grand prix tomorrow. When I was a youngster arriving in Formula 1, I never thought I would be in the sport for so long. I have had some incredible highs and some tough lows, but that's top line sport. I have learned a huge amount during that time, about myself and life in general, and the drive is still very strong for the sport; I still enjoy it a lot. It's another number, but it would be good to get a good result to mark it."

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Bahrain GP: Red Bull race quotes Sunday, April 21st 2013, 16:41 GMT

 

 

Sebastian Vettel - 1st: "It was good fun at the beginning with some very tight wheel to wheel racing. At the start you don't know if you will be quick or not, as everyone is a bit all over the place, including yourself! It's important to get to the front; we saw at the last race that if you get stuck behind someone then it does have an impact on tyre wear and today it was important to make use of the tyres we had saved from qualifying yesterday. I love to be in clean air, so I was pushing hard to get into the lead and, with the speed we had mid-race, it was quite comfortable today. Well done to the whole team, to everyone here, to the factory in the background and especially to those who were working on the strategy today; it worked just as we expected, so we obviously got the numbers right."

 

Mark Webber - 7th: "The beginning wasn't too bad, but we lost quite a bit of time in the second stint trying to clear people. We went aggressive on the first few out laps, which meant we jumped people, but the tyres didn't like it. That meant the second stint was a disaster really in terms of pace at the end and that loaded the other two stints up. In the middle of the race I thought I could get on the podium, but then it was about pace management and it's a fine line between racing and saving tyres. Others pitted a bit before me at the end, but it wasn't enough for me to get home. If you race people hard then you run out of tyres, but if you don't then they come through. In the end it was a pretty good battle with Lewis for both of us; neither of us had any tyres left, but we were trying to race as best we could."

 

Christian Horner, team principal: "An absolutely impeccable drive from Sebastian today. He executed two brilliant overtakes, one on Fernando and the other on Nico Rosberg. After that he dominated the race until the finish and managed his tyres brilliantly. The strategy worked perfectly with the tyres that we conserved in qualifying, which ended with a dominant win on a three-stop strategy. For Mark, after racing very well in the first stint and making progress through the first round of pit stops, in the second stint he pushed very hard on the first few laps which effectively elevated him into second position. Unfortunately he couldn't achieve the longevity in that stint, which put him under pressure for the final two. His last stop put him in the range of those on two-stops, and then it was a matter of making it to the end. Despite fighting fantastically well and racing very hard with Lewis, he ran out of rear tyres before the end of the race, but still got some valuable points."

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

Come in Malesia, la Red Bull si è confermata velocissima in queste condizioni:

 

- pista molto calda

- gomme di mescola più dura

 

Non a caso le difficoltà erano emerse col clima più freddo e con le gomme più tenere, condizioni che c'erano anche nei test invernali, dove non erano sembrati a posto.

 

Penso che d'ora in avanti hanno ottime chance di dimostrarsi veloci ovunque farà caldo e si useranno i composti più duri.

Un po' come accadeva per la Lotus l'anno scorso.

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Red Bull: Ricciardo in pole per sostituire Webber

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

Ho guardato alcune statistiche.

 

La Renault è alla pole numero 204, tra 4 pole raggiungerà la Ferrari a quota 208.

 

Vista la competitività della Red Bull, prevedo il sorpasso entro metà stagione.

[lucaf2000 1631]

A vittorie come sono messi invece?

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

221 i Ferrari, 154 i Renault e 96 i Mercedes.

Il sorpasso è possibile solo sul fronte delle Pole Position, e vista la competitività della Red Bull in qualifica rispetto alla Ferrari è molto probabile che possa accadere presto.

[mp4/18 351]

impressionante statistica considerando che la ferrari è da sempre in f1 e la renault solo da fine anni '70, non continuativamente fra l'altro

[carlomm73 77]

Ma per Renault s'intende la macchina o i motori? Perchè in tal caso c'è da considerare che la Ferrari è da sempre nel circus ma molto raramente ha avuto team-clienti. La Renault li ha forniti a diverse altre scuderie tra anni '80 e '90. Inoltre in alcune stagioni la scuderia era prima l' unica, poi comunque tra i pochi, ad avere i turbo che in qualifica facilitiva molto, soprattutto sui circuiti veloci.

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

La statistica si riferisce ai soli motori.

Ovviamente tra le 208 pole dei motori Ferrari si deve considerare quella di Vettel a Monza 2008 (unica pole ottenuta da un motore Ferrari "clienti").

 

Quelle dei motori Renault comprendono sia le pole della casa ufficiale, sia quelle ottenute con le varie Lotus, Williams, Benetton, Red Bull, ecc...

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Red Bull, alternatore della Tag

 

Lo si è saputo un po' tardi, ma la notizia che la Red Bull ha abbandonato gli alternatori della Magneti Marelli per sposare quelli della Tag fa un certo effetto. E non è propriamente positiva per l'azienda italiana. I ritiri causati proprio dall'alternatore che stopparono per due volte Sebastian Vettel, Monza e Valencia, e una volta Mark Webber, Austin, hanno convinto la Red Bull ad abbandonare Magneti Marelli, partner di Renault, e comunque ancora presenti sulle Lotus.

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

Se loro si ritengono convinti che la causa era l'alternatore, hanno fatto sicuramente bene a cambiare fornitore.

 

Se però la causa era legata al progetto RB8 che stressava troppo quella componente, il guasto si poteva verificare con qualsiasi fornitore.

Non lo sapremo mai veramente qual'era il vero responsabile di quei guasti.

[nkola1979 59]

io credo che dopo i primi 3 gp (sopratutto in australia).. la red bull, che aveva effettivamente un assetto piu spinto da qualifica ma che penalizzava molto la gara per il consumo gomme, ha cambiato strategia.

Ha deciso di rinunciare a parte del vantaggio che aveva in qualifica e di puntare co un asssetto piu morbido alla gara....

risultato : in qualiifca sarà sempre tra le prime ma nn avra piu' i 3-4 decimi di vantaggio....ma durante la gara potrà battagliare alla grande ed essere agressiva....vedi barhein dove in gara vettel credo avesse mezzo secondo su alonso e 1 secondo su tutti gli altri se voleva...senza consumare troppo le gomme......

credo che essendo la macchina areodinamicamente migliore (e per distanza)....ma non potendo puntare tutto su questo con un assetto rigido e impiccato a causa del consumo ecessivo delle gomme....abbiano deciso di adattarsi seguendo gli assetti degli altri....tanto a parità di assetto meccanico la macchina è migliore comunque areodinamicamente....

non credo che la red bull avrà d'ora in avanti molti passaggia vuoto...anzi credo saranno piu quegli degli altri....

[Visitatore Rhobar_III]

Sul numero di Autosprint di oggi si possono leggere dichiarazioni molto polemiche del boss Mateschitz e di Helmut Marko.

 

Mateschitz ha detto: "Oggi non vince il pilota o la macchina più veloce, ma chi gestisce meglio le gomme.

Abbiamo dovuto addirittura rendere la nostra monoposto meno competitiva, altrimenti non sarebbero durate abbastanza.

Se potessimo andare forte come siamo in grado di fare, ci servirebbero dieci o quindici pit-stop a gara".

 

Marko: "Vogliamo un tipo di pneumatico che non limiti il nostro potenziale.

I nostri piloti sono pagati bene, è dura dir loro che non devono tenere giù il piede in certe curve".

 

Queste sono dichiarazioni decisamente pesanti e polemiche.

Da una parte verrebbe da chiedersi effettivamente dove sarebbe la Red Bul se potesse davvero spingere al limite la sua macchina.

 

D'altra parte, però, la situazione (in teoria) è uguale per tutti, quindi anche gli altri non possono certo dire che possono spingere al limite.

[Ruberekus 12261]

sono d'accordo, in linea di principio hanno ragione perché è degradante vedere i piloti non poter tirare per non mandare al macero le gomme, immagino poi gli ingegneri come gradiscano vedere un progetto valido limitato da questo fattore

 

d'altro canto la situazione, in teoria, è uguale per tutti, e come sempre c'è chi si adatta meglio e chi meno

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Red Bull junior drivers Antonio Felix da Costa, Carlos Sainz Jnr, Daniil Kvyat, Beitske Visser, Tom Blomqvist, Callan O’Keeffe at the Red Bull Ring, 2013

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Anche nel 2013 ritorna in pista la “Red Bull Kart Fight”