Where Can Red Bull Be Threatened Now?

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Published: May 27, 2010

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In the last two rounds in Spain and Monaco, Red Bull has finally started to turn their superiority over the rest of the field into big results. Furthermore, it appeared that Adrian Newey waved his magic wand again, and their margin over the rest of the field increased as opposed to decreasing.

Their pace in Barcelona was more dominant than Brawn GP a year earlier. In 2009 qualifying, Button was only 0.133 seconds clear of Sebastien Vettel. Fast forward to 2010 and Mark Webber was a massive 0.834 seconds clear of the first non-Red Bull.

To their rival’s dismay, the twisty streets of Monte-Carlo didn’t hault the Red Bull bandwagon.

However, the RB6 isn’t perfect. There are weaknesses that their rivals can capitalise on in future races. This season, we have seen reliability issues and errors in the team’s strategy.

Their Renault engine is also down on power in comparison to the Ferrari and Mercedes engines. Red Bull are almost bottom of the order when it comes to straight line speed. In fact Mercedes almost gave Red Bull engines for this season. Just imagine how much quicker the RB6 would have been had that deal taken place.

The car does still have a tendency to eat its tyres. Fortunately for the team, we haven’t really had any boiling hot races since Bahrain, which has eased the issue somewhat at the high degradation tracks.

Let’s look ahead to the next five races, and see where Mclaren, Ferrari and Mercedes will have a chance of preventing photos such as the one above.

Turkey- Istanbul

In principle, this should be a Red Bull track with it’s fast corners: turn eight, in particular (the triple apex corner). The RB6 should be ultra strong. With their extra downforce, they should be able to carry more speed into the corner than any of their rivals.

However, this isn’t a guaranteed Red Bull win. Istanbul also featu...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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