Red Bull wants Renault to dump its alternator supplier. The reigning champions have been dogged by a recurring reliability problem in 2012, which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at Valencia and ...
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Worried Red Bull hope for Singapore sling
A worried Red Bull is travelling to Singapore this week, hoping a spate of alternator problems do not return under the Asian city-state’s floodlights. Sebastian Vettel and Lotus’ similarly Renault-powered ...
Read More »Vettel hopes for more speed at slower tracks
Sebastian Vettel is expecting to get back in the game next time out in Singapore. The reigning world champion is now 39 points behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso after the Spa-Monza ...
Read More »Red Bull controversies ‘boring tactic’ – Webber
Mark Webber has described the high profile of technical controversies involving Red Bull as a “tactic” deployed by rival teams. This week, a reportedly “furious” Ferrari hit back at Helmut ...
Read More »Jealousy fuels Red Bull controversies – Marko
The paddock noise about Red Bull ‘cheating’ is fuelled by jealousy, the team’s Dr Helmut Marko has claimed. So far in 2012, the reigning champions have been at the centre ...
Read More »Marko criticises rule-changing and Red Bull’s rivals
Dr Helmut Marko is critical not only of the moves to change the engine mapping rules mid-season, but also of rival teams who lobbied the FIA and then refused to ...
Read More »FIA closes Red Bull ‘engine maps’ loophole
As expected, the FIA on Wednesday issued a rule clarification in the wake of the Red Bull ‘engine maps’ controversy at Hockenheim. The governing body’s technical boss Jo Bauer shocked ...
Read More »Vettel penalty like ‘death for chicken stealing’
Red Bull has stepped up its attack on the FIA after Sunday’s German grand prix. After stewards demoted Sebastian Vettel from second to fifth place for his late-race pass on ...
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