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The 2016 Formula One World Championship started off this past weekend with one of the most frightening crashes the sport has seen in years. The crash saw McLaren driver Fernando Alonso fly through the air when his car came into contact with the car of Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez. Fortunately there were no injuries to report of. ALSO SEE: Faster Cars, Cockpit Protection Coming To F1 In 2017 However, the crash was a timely reminder that F1 organizers need to hurry up and finalize a solution to improve cockpit protection. Some form of cockpit protection has been proposed for next season. The...
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Aston Martin partners with Red Bull F1 team, confirms Adrian Newey-designed hypercarAston Martin has shown the seriousness of its intent to challenge the likes of Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] and McLaren Automotive when it comes to building the fastest, most technologically-advanced road cars, by announcing a technical partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. Aston Martin CEO...
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Max Verstappen, Red Bull May Face Fines For Recent Ski Slope StuntA couple of weeks ago, Formula One driver Max Verstappen took to the snow-covered Austrian Alps in a Red Bull Racing F1 car as part of a promotional stunt. The stunt involved the Dutch youngster driving the car from the 2011 season up and down a ski course in Kitzbuhel in front of a large audience...
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Watch A Red Bull F1 Car Hit The Slopes: VideoThe Austrian Alps isn’t exactly a place you’d expect to see a Formula One car but that’s exactly what skiers at the legendary Streif ski course in Kitzbuhel witnessed yesterday. As part of a promotional stunt, Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen took to the slopes in the Red Bull...
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Infiniti ends Red Bull Racing Formula 1 sponsorshipInfiniti has ended its sponsorship arrangement with the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team, with one year left in the contract. The arrangement, signed at the end of the 2012 season when Red Bull was still at its peak, saw Infiniti become the title sponsor for the team, but it never really made much...
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Red Bull Formula One Team To Use Tag Heuer-Branded Renault Power Unit In 2016As a sign of how silly Formula One sponsorship can get, Red Bull Racing, which is funded by the Red Bull energy drinks company and has Infiniti as a title sponsor as well as Renault as a power unit supplier, has decided to give its power unit a name. The name will be that of Swiss watch company Tag...
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Hot on the heels of news Aston Martin is considering making a return to Formula One as a technology partner of Red Bull Racing, a role currently fulfilled by Infiniti, more rumors emerging from the U.K. suggest Red Bull design ace Adrian Newey’s long-postulated road car project could end up being a new supercar bearing the Aston Martin name. Over the weekend, it emerged that Red Bull is looking to drop Infiniti as a technology and brand partner in favor of Aston Martin, in return for the British sports car marque getting Mercedes-Benz to supply its hugely successful F1 engines to Red...
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Is Audi Poised To Enter F1 And Supply Engines To Struggling Red Bull?Once-dominant Formula One team Red Bull Racing has been struggling all season with it's Renault-sourced power plants—and signs seem to be pointing toward Audi coming to its rescue. Details come from Auto Express, which writes that the key obstacle to entering F1 was recently departed chairman...
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First Look At Red Bull Racing RB11 2015 Formula One Car: VideoInfiniti Red Bull Racing is the last major team to reveal its new race car for the 2015 Formula One World Championship. While the final livery is yet to be shown, many of the details of the new car, dubbed the RB11, can clearly be seen. What’s immediately apparent is the new nose, which...
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Thieves Steal Half Of Red Bull Racing’s F1 Trophies--Updated With Video Of The CrimeJanuary 22, 2015 Update: The BBC has obtained security footage showing the crime taking place. Unfortunately, none of the thieves have been identified and 40 of the trophies still remain missing. Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner described the theft as being a "pointless crime" and...
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Be A Track Day God With These Used Formula One CarsThere are plenty of ways to be the fastest guy at your local track day. You could wrench like a mad man to get your spec Miata in top shape. You could spend a bit of dough on top-tier driving classes, and then apply your learned skills to your local circuit. Perhaps you have enough cash to dump on...
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Sebastian Vettel Quits Red Bull Ahead Of Expected Move To FerrariSebastian Vettel has confirmed he is quitting Infiniti Red Bull Racing, the team that helped him secure his four Formula One World Championship titles, at the end of the current season. Vettel hasn’t confirmed his next move but comments from team principal Christian Horner suggest the German...
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Infiniti looks to be further strengthening its presence in Formula One with the appointment of Tommaso Volpe as its new F1 global director. Effective September 1, Volpe will be responsible for Infiniti’s entire activities concerning the sport, namely, its title sponsorship of the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team. Volpe was previously with Lotus Cars and was influential in getting the Lotus name back in F1 as well as helping to establish the British automaker’s line of retail stores. He will be based at Infiniti’s headquarters in Hong Kong and report to the automaker's global...
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Man Makes Paper F1 Car, Gets Job At Red Bull Racing: VideoSee how one man went from crafting cars from paper to crafting them from carbon fiber.
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Sebastian Vettel Starts Testing 560-HP Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge: VideoInfiniti is finally serious about launching a proper performance product, and our first taste of what’s to come is the Q50 Eau Rouge concept. At the concept’s reveal at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show in January, Infiniti boss Johan de Nysschen said that any production version must have the...
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Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo Takes On An F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Jet: VideoIt's a Down-Under duel between car and plane.
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First GT Academy Winner To Drive For Nissan In Super GT & Le Mans, Another Being Prepped For F1The original winner of Nissan’s GT Academy, Lucas Ordonez, has certainly come a long way since his student days of 2008. After winning the first-ever round of GT Academy that year, Ordonez was propelled into the world of GT4 racing where he competed in a Nissan 350Z and then the 370Z. In 2010...
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Red Bull Racing Reveals RB10 2014 Formula One Car: VideoInfiniti Red Bull Racing, the last of the top teams to reveal its new race car for the 2014 Formula One World Championship, has finally pulled off the covers. The car is the RB10, aptly named since it’s Red Bull’s 10th season in F1, and it's the one Sebastian Vettel will be hoping to...
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Gran Turismo 6 will get an end-of-the-year update with Red Bull-specific content.
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Red Bull X2014 for "Gran Turismo 6" revealedTake one part Adrian Newey and one part limitless imagination, shake them up in a box with Gran Turismo 6, and you get the Red Bull X2014. This isn't the first car Newey and Gran Turismo have partnered for--in the video game universe, of course--but it's certainly the best. DON'T MISS: Fast And...
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Vettel Wins In Brazil While Webber Bows Out With SecondThe 2013 Formula One season is now over, with the final race in Brazil this past weekend seeing Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel emerge victorious. His teammate Mark Webber finished second in what was the Australian’s last race in Formula One. Third place in the Brazilian Grand Prix...
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More Records Fall Following Formula One United States GPDespite having the 2013 Formula One Wold Championship title already in the bag, Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel has shown no let-up in his desire to keep winning after breaking yet another record during yesterday’s United States Grand Prix. His victory at the Circuit of the Americas...
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Vettel Wins Seventh Race In A Row At Formula One Abu Dhabi GPEven with the 2013 Formula One World Championship title under his belt, Sebastian Vettel notched up yet another win, this time at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. This was the Red Bull Racing driver’s 11th win of the season, and his seventh in a row, with the latter seeing him match Michael...
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Vettel Secures F1 World Championship After Winning Indian GPThe stunning run of Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel in the 2013 Formula One season showed no sign of slowing yesterday after the German won the Indian Grand Prix and in the process secured his fourth consecutive world championship. This puts the 26-year-old in an exclusive league of...
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