{"id":2313,"date":"2010-02-10T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:27:28","slug":"new-red-bull-breaks-down-on-jerez-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-red-bull-breaks-down-on-jerez-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"New Red Bull breaks down on Jerez debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Smiles turned to consternation in the Red Bull garage on Wednesday after the RB6 was launched in the pitlane.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a mostly wet morning at the wheel of the new Renault powered car, Mark Webber had to walk back to the pits after it broke down with an oil leak.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team said the stoppage was actually &#8220;precautionary&#8221;, and Australian Webber also played down the problem as being &#8220;nothing major&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The RB6 is clearly an evolution of the highly competitive 2009 car, but its double diffuser is clearly new, as the rear device was carefully covered during the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Also notable was the presence of the former Renault sponsor Pepe Jeans on the livery.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Vettel, watching on from the pitwall on Wednesday, said he is yet to give the car a personal name, after last year&#8217;s RB5 was humorously called &#8216;Kate&#8217;s Dirty Sister&#8217; because it was faster than the 2008 car, &#8216;Kate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Webber was yet to set a front-running time by the time of the oil leak.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg was consistently quick throughout the opening morning of the Jerez test, ahead of the Toro Rosso (Sebastien Buemi) and Williams (Nico Hulkenberg) cars.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso was fourth quickest for Ferrari, ahead of Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber).<\/p>\n<p>Jenson Button&#8217;s new McLaren was featuring a bizarre and huge sensor attached to one side of the cockpit, but the British team said it did not indicate an aerodynamic problem.<\/p>\n<p>Tonio Liuzzi gave Force India&#8217;s VJM03 its proper test debut, and at the time of writing, Timo Glock had only just exited the pits at the wheel of the new Virgin.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles turned to consternation in the Red Bull garage on Wednesday after the RB6 was launched in the pitlane. \u00a0 After a mostly wet morning at the wheel of the new Renault powered car, Mark Webber had to walk back to the pits after it broke down with an oil leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,165,671,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}