Red Bull VP/GM leaves; RBR to Chevy?: Citing “irreconcilable differences in the team philosophy,” Red Bull Racing and Marty Gaunt, formerly the team’s vice president/general manager, have parted company effective immediately, the team announced Monday. The team, which is owned by Austria-based Red Bull energy drink founder Dietrich Mateschitz, has struggled in its first year in the Nextel Cup Series, with both its cars outside the top 35 in owner points and therefore not guaranteed starting spots in races. “Red Bull Racing must concentrate nearly all efforts on qualifying, while maintaining a strong emphasis on building a solid foundation for a successful and enduring organization for the future,” the team said in a statement issued Monday. Given the team’s struggles in 2007, Red Bull has been rumored to be changing to Chevrolets next season, a scenario Gaunt and Toyota’s Andy Graves denied last weekend at Pocono Raceway.(SPEEDtv.com)(8-7-2007)
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Red Bull staying with Toyota: Elton Sawyer, Team Red Bull’s competition director, responded to questions about a possible switch from Toyotas to Chevrolets next season by saying his operation “is very content with our current manufacture. We have no plans to make any changes. It’s been a good partnership.” There has been intense speculation that the first-year team has been trying to make the change. The other question facing the new NASCAR operation is Scott Speed, the Red Bull-backed racer who just lost his Formula One ride and who has been at the company’s Charlotte-area shops the past few days looking for something to do next. “Scott is a Red Bull athlete, and anything we can to do to help him get introduced to NASCAR racing, whether it be Busch, Truck or ARCA, we’ll do,” Sawyer said. But he said that there were no specific plans currently for Speed.(Winston Salem Journal)(9-4-2007)
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give em some time, the red bull team will come into their own next year. The important thing is keep the key guys who are producing good race cars. What they need help with is qualifiing. Since this is an issue for them, and being a new team, they lack those owners points from last year....next year should be better....
Red Bull Racing Team takes an engineering-driven approach to stock car racing, where our industry-leading think tank is focused on enhancing the technology of the Nos. 83 and 84. All of the elements are in place to someday soon get where every NASCAR team is trying to go — victory lane.
The two-car team is Red Bull’s most ambitious effort in the United States to show its dedication to racing. The unique business model as owner-sponsor allows for competition and marketing to work as one.
But our cars are only an extension of Red Bull’s reach into racing. Red Bull has interests in Formula One, rally and air racing and MotoGP, and the NASCAR program complements U.S. spectacles such as the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix in Indianapolis, the Red Bull Air Races in San Diego and Detroit and the X-Fighters in Fort Worth, Texas.
It’s our second season in America’s top form of motorsports. Brian Vickers, the 2003 Nationwide Series champion and one-time Cup race winner, drives the No. 83 led by crew chief Kevin Hamlin. In the No. 84 is AJ Allmendinger, a former open-wheel ace who turned to NASCAR and has Rick Viers as his crew chief.
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