Showing posts with label Formula 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Formula 1. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Red Bull's Mark Weber shakes off crash with win at Silverstone


The Pepe Jeans sponsored Red Bull F1 car streaked to victory on its British home turf on Sunday. Aussie driver Mark Webber proved his mettle after a horrific crash in the last leg of the season which many critics claimed would shatter Webber's track confidence.
In a two-finger salute to his detractors Webber pulled off a faultless display in front of a crowd of 115,000. After narrowly missing another collision with team-mate Sebastien Vettel in the first corner Webber went on to take his fifth podium of the season. Come on Red Bull!


Monday, 17 May 2010

Red Bull F1 Team takes Monaco


It was a repeat performance yesterday on the streets of sun-drenched Monaco where the drivers of the Pepe Jeans-sponsored Red Bull F1 team took both the first and second positions on the race winners' podium.
From his starting position at the front of the grid Aussie driver Mark Webber (pictured above with race legend Jackie Stewart, left) took a comprehensive control of the race increasing his lead with every lap until a frustrating succession of four safety car periods stymied his leading margin.


Team-mate Sebastian Vettel played down any disappointment in coming second place for the second consecutive race saying that his main focus through the race was to hold Renault's Robert Kubica's to third place.

According to Mark Webber, it was "the greatest day of my life", although the driver admitted that the championship battle was still wide-open. Red Bull's second 1-2 finish of the season propels the team to the top of the constructors' table, and left Webber and Vettel tied on 78 points at the head of the drivers' standings.

After, a well-deserved evening partying with the team in Monaco, the team today starts packing up for the next leg of the season in Istanbul on May 30th .

Monday, 5 April 2010

Pepe Jeans takes to the podium in Malaysia


Wahey - the Pepe Jeans-sponsored Red Bull team took first and second places in yesterday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
After a disappointing start to the season with Sebastian Vettel's car limping out of the first two races due to mechanical failures, despite taking the pole in both, yesterday the entire team had plenty to celebrate about.
Vettel shot from third to first on the first lap, which is where he stayed until the end of the race.
We're all looking forward to the next leg on April 18 in China. Fingers crossed the cars keep hold of their mojo.

Monday, 29 March 2010

Vettel goes from pole to pain


In case you didn't already know Pepe Jeans is sponsoring the Formula One Red Bull team this season. So, you can imagine our groans of intense frustration yesterday when, after winning pole position for the second consecutive race of the season, we lost out for the second Grand Prix of the season due to mechanical problems.

In the first Grand Prix in Bahrain, faulty spark plugs led to Sebastian Vettel dropping from first place to fourth, while in Australia it was Vettel's brakes that failed. "I had some sparks coming up from the left wheel," said Vettel. "We didn't know what it was so I wanted to pit. A couple of corners before the end of that lap I had a huge vibration building up and, when I touched the brakes going in to turn 13, I had some sort of failure and ended up in the gravel. It breaks my balls not to win but there's a long way to go in this championship," added Vettel, who ran off the Albert Park track in 2009 while fighting for second with BMW's Robert Kubica.

It's clear that Red Bull has the fastest car on the track,but until the team irons out its reliability issues it doesn't look like Pepe Jeans will be sharing its place on a Formula One podium.