LuNo Posted April 14, 2007 Posted April 14, 2007 Coulthard: Red Bull Must Wing ItDavid Coulthard insists it will take time before Red Bull are capable of competing for places at the top of the grid as he prepares for the third race of the season in Bahrain this weekend.The 36-year-old has failed to finish in both the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix so far, and is not expecting to fare much better on the Sakhir circuit on Sunday.But he insists Red Bull, who have only been in existence for two years, need to be patient as they aim to develop into a team capable of challenging for championships in the future.Coulthard told PA Sport: "Do I think there is an opportunity to move forward? Yes I do."We don't have electronic shift at the moment. So all of a sudden when that is introduced it will help us to move forward and suddenly you are getting into a competitive area."We just have to be patient, one race doesn't make a championship. The reality is we are not in a championship battle right now, we are in a battle to progress the team and we have got a significant part of the season to keep working on it."Unfortunately it is currently like an extension of testing. It's not the ideal way to go into racing but that is where we are. We have a completely new car and new engine."If you look at the teams that are winning at the moment they have had continuity for several years, we haven't had that and it will take time to build it."With only seven days separating the GPs in Malaysia and Bahrain, Red Bull have not had time to make any improvements to the car.And Coulthard is expecting another finish in the middle of the grid for the team this weekend.He added: "We have no updates on the car so there is no reason to believe that we will be any quicker than we were in the last Grand Prix."At the Bahrain test we were right in the middle of the grid and that is probably where we will be this weekend."I think Bahrain people are very friendly we get a nice reception here. The first corner is a bit ugly but other than that everything else is reasonable."The dust on the track can be pretty bad and with the weather forecast being a bit iffy it could make it very interesting." Quote
LuNo Posted April 14, 2007 Posted April 14, 2007 1st Free Practice1 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:33.162 2 F. Massa Ferrari 1:33.679 3 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:34.110 4 F. Alonso McLaren 1:34.161 5 J. Trulli Toyota 1:34.896 6 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:35.076 7 R. Kubica BMW 1:35.2488 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:35.292 9 N. Rosberg Williams 1:35.375 10 A. Wurz Williams 1:35.398 11 J. Button Honda 1:35.445 12 H. Kovalainen Renault 1:35.474 13 R. Schumacher Toyota 1:35.573 14 G. Fisichella Renault 1:35.697 15 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:35.726 16 T. Sato Super Aguri 1:35.856 17 R. Barrichello Honda 1:35.911 18 A. Davidson Super Aguri 1:36.24319 M. Webber Red Bull 1:36.48320 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:36.51321 A. Sutil Spyker F1 1:37.084 22 C. Albers Spyker F1 1:38.258 Quote
LuNo Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 2nd Free Practice1 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:33.527 2 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:33.540 3 R. Kubica BMW 1:33.732 4 F. Massa Ferrari 1:33.772 5 F. Alonso McLaren 1:33.784 6 A. Wurz Williams 1:33.973 7 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:34.076 8 N. Rosberg Williams 1:34.189 9 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:34.359 10 J. Trulli Toyota 1:34.366 11 R. Barrichello Honda 1:34.391 12 H. Kovalainen Renault 1:34.585 13 A. Davidson Super Aguri 1:34.595 14 M. Webber Red Bull 1:34.677 15 G. Fisichella Renault 1:34.796 16 T. Sato Super Aguri 1:35.001 17 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:35.268 18 R. Schumacher Toyota 1:35.427 19 A. Sutil Spyker F1 1:35.582 20 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:35.687 21 C. Albers Spyker F1 1:35.835 22 J. Button Honda 1:36.079 Quote
LuNo Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Free practice1 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:32.543 2 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:32.549 3 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:32.6524 R. Kubica BMW 1:32.755 5 A. Davidson Super Aguri 1:32.900 6 F. Massa Ferrari 1:32.950 7 F. Alonso McLaren 1:33.235 8 M. Webber Red Bull 1:33.399 9 G. Fisichella Renault 1:33.602 10 H. Kovalainen Renault 1:33.605 11 N. Rosberg Williams 1:33.614 12 A. Wurz Williams 1:33.658 13 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:33.700 14 J. Trulli Toyota 1:33.724 15 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:33.826 16 J. Button Honda 1:34.023 17 T. Sato Super Aguri 1:34.082 18 R. Barrichello Honda 1:34.397 19 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:34.791 20 R. Schumacher Toyota 1:35.144 21 C. Albers Spyker F1 1:35.395 22 A. Sutil Spyker F1 1:35.436 Quote
LuNo Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Qualifying 1 F. Massa Ferrari 1:32.652 2 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:32.935 3 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:33.131 4 F. Alonso McLaren 1:33.192 5 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:33.404 6 R. Kubica BMW 1:33.710 7 G. Fisichella Renault 1:34.056 8 M. Webber Red Bull 1:34.106 9 J. Trulli Toyota 1:34.154 10 N. Rosberg Williams 1:34.399 11 A. Wurz Williams 1:32.915 12 H. Kovalainen Renault 1:32.935 13 A. Davidson Super Aguri 1:33.082 14 R. Schumacher Toyota 1:33.294 15 R. Barrichello Honda 1:33.624 16 J. Button Honda 1:33.731 17 T. Sato Super Aguri 1:33.984 18 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:34.024 19 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:34.333 20 A. Sutil Spyker F1 1:35.280 21 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:35.341 22 C. Albers Spyker F1 1:35.533 Quote
LuNo Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Webber gives Red Bull hopeRed Bull Racing endured a mixed result in Bahrain today with Mark Webber giving the team hope for tomorrow after he qualified eighth. A gearbox problem in the first session meant Coulthard qualified 21st."The car seemed to lose seventh gear at the end of my first qualifying run, at Turn 12," said Coulthard. "We thought it was a sensor failure so the team changed something and I went back out. However, it appeared that the car had lost fifth, sixth and seventh gear, which is not ideal when you're trying to qualify!"Webber added, "I'd have liked to have done a little bit better at the end of the third qualifying session, but that's where we are. We'll see if we can get a point or two tomorrow in the race."Team boss Christian Horner commented, "This is the third race and the third time Mark's made it into the top ten. He drove very well throughout qualifying, building up his pace and I think he extracted the maximum out of the car today. He's continued to impress us with his application and hopefully he can have a strong race tomorrow. David had appalling luck when his car suffered a gear failure on his first run, meaning he was unable to take any further part in qualifying. But, he's shown strong pace during the weekend so far, so hopefully we can help him with a good race strategy tomorrow." Quote
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