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Red Bull Racing
Team Score: C
Sebastian Vettel: C-
Daniel Ricciardo: B+
The dominant team in the grand prix
paddock for several seasons, Red Bull Racing has found themselves
unseated from to top of the podium in all but one race this season.
Facing reliability problems in pre-season testing, the Red
Bull-Renault RB10 arrived in Australia with not only technical
gremlins but troubles with fuel consumption (new criteria limiting
the amount of fuel burned by a race car cost Red Bull Racing and
Daniel Ricciardo a podium result in post-race).
The only team other than Mercedes AMG
to pull off a race win this season, the surreal part of the Red Bull
Racing picture for 2014 has been the fact newcomer Daniel Ricciardo
is outperforming his championship defending teammate Sebastian
Vettel. Vettel has been enduring a slump few would have forecasted
heading into the season.
Improvements for Second-Half of 2014:
Daniel Ricciardo is performing at least at par for what Red Bull
Racing could have expected heading into the year. However, the team
needs to desperately recapture its magic that proved so powerful in
the past four seasons. Needless to say, Sebastian Vettel must recover
his mojo in the cockpit. Better performances in qualifying could
grant the Red Bull-Renault a better shot at celebrations like the one in Canada.
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