Oracle Red Bull Racing
Christian Horner
Christian Horner was the first of a new breed of young, enthusiastic team principals and during his time in charge at Red Bull Racing he has built up his power and influence within the sport.
He started out as a driver in 1994, competing in the British F3 championship, before progressing to F3000 and founding Team Arden in 1997. After realising he would not make it to the top level he retired from driving in 1998 to concentrate on team management.
Aged 25, Horner initially struggled for results, however, perseverance paid off and from 2002 Arden became the team to beat after claiming multiple F3000 titles.
Red Bull Racing entered Formula One in 2005 and hired 32-year old Horner. It took him just over a season to secure the teams’ first podium at the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix.
Horner appointed Adrian Newey as Technical Director and it was in 2009 that the team really hit their stride when claiming six victories en route to second in the constructors’ standings.
Horner then led Red Bull Racing to four consecutive constructors’ and drivers’ titles between 2010 and 2013 and most recently oversaw Max Vertappen’s 2021 Drivers’ Championship.
2018: Aston Martin Red Bull Racing finishes third in Constructors’ standings with four wins
2014: Red Bull Racing claims second in Constructors’ standings with three wins
2010-2013: Red Bull Racing wins four consecutive Drivers’ & Constructors’ titles
2009: First team victory, 1-2 finish at Chinese GP, second in Constructors’ standings
2006: First podium for Red Bull Racing at the 2006 Monaco GP
2005: Appointed Team Principal of Red Bull Racing in Formula One
2002-2004: Arden win the Drivers’ & Teams’ titles
1997: Formed Arden International F3000 team & retired from race driving
1994-1996: British Formula 3
1991-1992: Formula
2021: Dutch driver, Max Verstappen, wins the Drivers’ Title with 10 wins
Max Verstappen
| Hometown | Hasselt, Belgium |
|---|---|
| D.O.B | 30/Sep/1997 |
| Race Starts | 141 |
| Pole Positions | 13 |
| Podiums | 60 |
| Race wins | 20 |
| Fastest Laps | 16 |
| Points | 1557.5 |
| F1 Debut | 2015 |
| @maxverstappen1 |
Congratulations to Max Verstappen who became 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship Drivers’ Champion with Red Bull Racing.
Max is the son of former Formula One driver Jos Verstappen was a karting sensation who elevated to European Formula 3 in 2014 and won ten races to finish third.
Despite it being his first season in open-wheel racing, Red Bull Racing advisor Helmut Marko saw enough potential to promote Verstappen to the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team in 2015.
His first season proved to be as dramatic to watch as his progress through the junior ranks with a combination of impressive results and outlandish overtaking manoeuvres. He finished the season with two fourth-place finishes to his name and 12th place overall in the drivers’ standings.
After four races into the 2016 season, Max was promoted to drive for Red Bull Racing, swapping seats with Daniil Kvyat. Astonishingly, Max won the Spanish Grand Prix on his debut for the team and became the sport’s youngest ever race winner.
Last year, Max really announced himself as a potential title contender during the shortened season, scoring two wins – at 70th anniversary GP and Abu Dhabi – eleven podiums in total and ending the season in P3 overall.
In 2021, Max Verstappen won his first Drivers’ Championship after 21 rounds and almost 23,000 laps raced. The fight went down to the wire at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with Max level on points with Hamilton.
Sergio Perez
| Hometown | Guadalajara, Mexico |
|---|---|
| D.O.B | 26/Jan/1990 |
| Race Starts | 213 |
| Pole Positions | 0 |
| Podiums | 15 |
| Race wins | 2 |
| Fastest Laps | 6 |
| Points | 896 |
| F1 Debut | 2011 |
| @schecoperez |
Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, is one of the most popular drivers in the Formula One paddock and can often be found smiling, but behind that smile is a deeply-committed racer who longs to be a Formula One World Champion.
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1990, Checo began his karting career at just six-years-old and in his first season of competing took four race wins. His first seat in Europe was for Team Rosberg in the Formula BMW ADAC series. He didn’t speak German or have a place to live, so found himself sleeping in a restaurant owned by the Team Manager.
Checo finally got his Formula One break in 2011 when he signed for Sauber and became the fifth Mexican to compete in the series. His first podium came the following year at the second race of the season in Malaysia.
For the 2013 season, Checo moved to McLaren and the team’s under-performing MP4-28 proved to be uncompetitive. In November later that year, he signed with Force India for 2014.
Checo has stayed with Force India ever since (despite the team name changing several times) and in 2016 and 2017 he finished P7 in the Drivers’ Championship, his highest finish at the time.
The highlight of Checo’s F1 career so far has to be his first career win at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain. Sergio was in last place at the end of the first lap after contact with another car, but he drove the perfect race to battle back through the field to P1!
2021 was Checo’s first season with the team and achieved five podiums including a race win at the Azerbaijan GP. However, perhaps Checo’s biggest moment, from a team perspective, came in the final round in Abu Dhabi. Where a brilliant defensive drive on aging tyres saw the Mexican fend off repeated attacks by Lewis Hamilton, a performance that provided a platform for Max Verstappen to make up time and challenge Hamilton for what eventually resulted in the Dutchman’s first world title.
A true team player, devastatingly quick in his own right and strategically brilliant racer, Checo’s second season with the Team promises more epic moments to remember.