Initially, the idea was for him to share the 2005 seat with Vitantonio Liuzzi, but after splitting the first four weekends Red Bull gave it to Klien on a permanent basis. While Red Bull effectively inherited Klien from Jaguar, its sponsorship had facilitated his place at the team in the first place. And he took an increasingly dim view of Red Bull/Toro Rosso’s approach too.īy the end of the year was completely at odds with the team over on-track matters and off-track ones, so it was no surprise to discover he would be replaced for 2019. And it was a fun story.īut he tended to find ways not to thread complete weekends together and he lacked a bit of overall pace compared to his fellow rookie Pierre Gasly. To be fair to Hartley, he did well in the circumstances.
Speed was one of a quartet of American drivers who won the inaugural Red Bull driver search in 2002, but health problems set him back in 2003 and he had to rebuild his career in the Formula Renault Eurocup before moving up to GP2 in 2005. He was given a three-race stint at the end of 2006 in place of the axed Christian Klien, qualifying strongly for his debut in China and finishing all three races.īut despite the promise shown, there wasn’t space for him in any of Red Bull’s four race seats the following season and he headed off to Champ Car. ROBERT DOORNBOSĭoornbos had raced for Christian Horner’s Arden team in F3000 with Red Bull support in 2005.Īfter stints as a test driver for Jordan and Minardi (graduating to a race seat with the latter in the second half of 2005) he became Red Bull’s Friday driver for the following season. In the wake of Red Bull’s latest driver switch, signing Sergio Perez to replace Alex Albon, and the arrival of another exciting protege in Yuki Tsunoda, our F1 journalists Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell rank all 18 drivers to have raced in F1 for its teams so far.Īs usual with our ranking of all a team’s drivers, this is about what they did for that team (or in many cases here teams plural) rather than their outright potential or achievements in their whole F1 career. Some didn’t last long others became team legends. Red Bull opted not to use Verstappen for the filming day as it would have meant he was required to complete 14 days in quarantine per the UK government’s coronavirus protocols for new arrivals.Red Bull’s list of Formula 1 drivers will grow to 20 this year, when Sergio Perez makes his debut for the senior team and Yuki Tsunoda drives for AlphaTauri.Īcross Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri (formerly Toro Rosso), the company has given opportunities big and small to a lot of drivers in the last 16 years. Horner outlined the benefits the filming day had for his team and Albon, who is starting his second F1 season, and revealed that the squad immediately completed a sub-two-second practice pitstop. Mercedes and Ferrari conducted tests with their W09 and SF71H 2018 cars at Silverstone and Mugello respectively.
Red Bull was the only one of F1’s leading three teams to run its 2020 car ahead of this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix when it completed a 100km filming day outing with Alex Albon at Silverstone last week.
“Our second year in our relationship with Honda that feels more integrated, very much part of the team now.