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Apparantly Red Bull are still investigating the engine problem. Would they need to be doing that if it was just a spark plug?
What's this about it being a thirsty car? I'm sure that the Red Bull has the best fuel efficiency.
What leads you to this conclusion, none of us truelly know the truth?Hence why it can be fuelled lighter ahead of the race...
Did I miss something, please enlighten me?I will stick with the spark plug explanation. I hope that Ron Dennis is not right. Obviously the reliability of the Renault engine is causing a few issues, as we saw with Mark Webber's start.
I find it odd that Webber seem's to have more issues than Vettel?
btw i always thought there was a rule that the drivers needed to drive back to pits after race. vettel stopped at pitwall.
Ive only just heard this speculation:-
Ron Dennis says its possible that the Red Bull drinks too much fuel or has too small an engine. The ECU will switch the car to fuel saving mode if it senses this and that could have accounted for Vettel's loss of power.
Well there's an interesting idea. What do you think?
Felipe Massa does not agree with Lewis Hamilton's comments that Red Bull's car is "ridiculously" faster than the rest of the 2010 field.
After finishing third behind the Ferraris in Bahrain when Sebastian Vettel's pole-setting RB6 dropped behind with a problem, Hamilton told British reporters at the weekend that the Red Bulls enjoyed a huge performance advantage.
"The Red Bull is ridiculously faster than anyone else's car," he said. "It's insane. The downforce they had on their car last year was at some points just about double what we had. Even at the end of the year they had so much more than us, even though we had won a couple of grands prix."
But Ferrari's Massa, who finished second in Bahrain, is not as downbeat as Hamilton about the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned Red Bull.
"In testing, the Red Bull might not have been the quickest car in terms of lap times, but I had noticed their pace over the longer runs had been very strong, so its speed in Bahrain qualifying was not a surprise," he said. "Overall, we were very similar and that reinforces the need to try and improve our car at every race through the season," said the Brazilian.
Massa believes Ferrari was even quicker in Bahrain than Red Bull on the harder of the two Bridgestone tyres.
Felipe Massa does not agree with Lewis Hamilton's comments that Red Bull's car is "ridiculously" faster than the rest of the 2010 field.
After finishing third behind the Ferraris in Bahrain when Sebastian Vettel's pole-setting RB6 dropped behind with a problem, Hamilton told British reporters at the weekend that the Red Bulls enjoyed a huge performance advantage.
"The Red Bull is ridiculously faster than anyone else's car," he said. "It's insane. The downforce they had on their car last year was at some points just about double what we had. Even at the end of the year they had so much more than us, even though we had won a couple of grands prix."
But Ferrari's Massa, who finished second in Bahrain, is not as downbeat as Hamilton about the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned Red Bull.
"In testing, the Red Bull might not have been the quickest car in terms of lap times, but I had noticed their pace over the longer runs had been very strong, so its speed in Bahrain qualifying was not a surprise," he said. "Overall, we were very similar and that reinforces the need to try and improve our car at every race through the season," said the Brazilian.
Massa believes Ferrari was even quicker in Bahrain than Red Bull on the harder of the two Bridgestone tyres.
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