DANIIL KVYAT First Practice Session: Position: 2, Best Time: 1:55.224, Laps: 6Second Practice Session: Session cancelled due to weather
"There was not so much to do out there today but we did a couple of laps in FP1 which was good for me to get on the track for a bit. But in FP2 there was obviously so much rain that we couldn’t even drive. We had some fun in the garage this afternoon because we didn’t get out at all, it was good to spend some time with the guys but obviously we would like to drive! If tomorrow is the same I guess I’ll bring my laptop, some movies, some magazines and a book and then we’ll see! The forecast is showing a chance of this sort of weather for a while so obviously we have to take every lap we can. It’s important to make the most out of what we did this morning and we also have to be ready in the event that everything is cancelled up until the race itself. This kind of weekend usually always makes the race more interesting."
DANIEL RICCIARDO First Practice Session: Position: 3, Best Time: 1:55.592, Laps: 10Second Practice Session: Session cancelled due to weather
“This weather is beautiful for the farmers. They need some water on their dry farms. It’s obviously a shame for us and the fans. I think on days like this you feel more sorry for the fans, because especially on the Friday, a lot of people take time off work to come and see us, so I feel for them. But we’ll definitely race. The forecast for tomorrow looks quite bad already but if we have to qualify and race on Sunday then that’s what we’ll do - if it’s like this tomorrow maybe we can go downtown and listen to music all day! The laps we did this morning were quite good. We know that in these conditions we are strong. With mixed conditions on Sunday we should be okay. I like this circuit and it’s one of my favourites. The car has been a lot better straight away in the last few races, so even if it’s dry on Sunday I think we’ll be able to attack.”
200 UP! CELEBRATING A DOUBLE CENTURY OF RACING!
This weekend sees us hit a pretty memorable milestone – our 200th race start. In that time we’ve notched 50 wins, 57 pole positions and eight titles. We’ve raced 21,045 laps, led 3,068 of them and scored 3014.5 points. Over that time and distance the team has undergone a host of changes but there are still a few team members who’ve been with us for every one of the 106,204 km we’ve raced. So, as we celebrate the occasion, we asked them for their outstanding memories of the past 199 starts.
Guillaume Rocquelin- Head of Race Engineering
Montreal 2008– DC’s last podium
This moment was a really important milestone in our story on so many levels: The essential contribution of David Coulthard to the team emergence, the success and validation he brought with him, confirmed by another podium – yet also on that day we knew that this would be his last season and a page was being turned. A bittersweet day that stands out for me as I was his Race Engineer at the time. For somebody so outspoken, DC is very modest about his time with us, possibly because the results were not as good as he was used to, but his contribution was outstanding.
Melbourne Race Day 2009– SV P3 on the grid.
Before this, the highest we had qualified was P2 with Mark at Silverstone. But this was the start of a new season and we knew the car was good and we were getting on a rocket ship, as Mark would have put it. We were now in a position to fight regularly at the front, from the start of the season. I will always remember that feeling of getting onto the grid to meet the car –normally we would walk down to where we used to qualify – but this time we were walking up, past the Ferraris and we kept on going. It was a fantastic feeling.
Nurburgring 2009 Mark’s first win
I know this choice might not be the obvious one, as there are many strong memories I have shared with Sebastian given my position in the team as his engineer. But Mark’s first win was a big deal. He has so many connections with people in the team over the years that this really brought the team together, people who had been there since the Jaguar days as well as the new guard that had been brought in when Red Bull took over. This really proved how we were all part of this now.
Paul Everington - Head of Electronics
European GP Valencia 2010
Mark Webber summersaulting his RB6 after contact with Heikki Kovalainen.
Abu Dhabi 2010
Watching the team win our first double World Championship in The Living Room in Milton Keynes. All I can say is it was Dave Boys…
The start of the 2014 Season
I was amazed at how quickly we responded to the issues with the newly introduced RB10 during winter testing and then seeing Daniel Ricciardo stand on the podium in Australia was fantastic. Just don’t mention the fuel flow meters!
Dave Boys – Race Team Build Manager
2009 world championship challenge
We started on the back foot by not having the double diffuser, which Brawn had introduced. Adrian and Christian pushed every department hard to introduce our own version. Our rate of development from its introduction led us to a car that could have easily have won the world championship if we had had it from the start, but it cemented our position in F1.
Monaco 2010 & Championship wins
Mark Webber’s first win at the Monaco GP was a huge achievement. To win the sport’s blue ribbon event was something immensely admirable. Sebastian went on to win the Drivers’ Championship, and as a team we won our first Constructors’ title. A large group of us watched the final race at a local watering hole and as Seb took the chequered flag the whole place erupted! It was a proud, unforgettable, and yes, a ‘slightly’ boozy moment!
Sebastian Vettel Brazil GP 2012
When Sebastian got collected by Bruno Senna at the start of the Brazilian GP he ended up pointing in the wrong direction at the back of the field, with damage to the side-pod and exhaust. I can still picture him spinning the car round and driving like a ‘man possessed’. The damage to the side-pod and exhaust would have generally meant certain retirement but he continued with advice from the team and drove the car to sixth place, which was enough to take his third title. It was the mark of a true and deserved champion and of a persistent world championship-winning team.
