Car · Red Bull Racing · 2010
Red Bull RB6
Fifteen poles from nineteen races - the car was on another level over one lap and merely very good over a race distance. Vettel took the championship at the last round in Abu Dhabi having led the standings for exactly none of the season until it ended. Exhaust blowing was progressively restricted and then banned for 2014.
- Seasons
- 2010
- Entries
- 38
- Wins
- 9
- Poles
- 15
- Fastest laps
- 6
- Constructors' titles
- 1
- Drivers' titles
- 1
Why it mattered
The idea. Point the exhausts into the diffuser so the car makes downforce from engine gas as well as airflow
New on this car. The exhaust-blown diffuser, taken further than anyone else and eventually to off-throttle blowing, which kept the effect alive when the driver lifted
What it did. 19 races, 9 wins, 15 poles. Vettel's first title and Red Bull's first constructors' championship.
- Designers
- Adrian Newey, Rob Marshall, Peter Prodromou, Dan Fallows
- Supersedes
- —
- Design life
- 2010
- Confidence
- high
Specification
- Chassis
- carbon-fibre and honeycomb composite monocoque, designed and built in-house, carrying engine as fully stressed member
- Front suspension
- Aluminium alloy uprights, carbon-composite double wishbones with springs and anti-roll bar, push rod-actuated Multimatic dampers
- Rear suspension
- as front, except pull rod-actuated rear dampers
- Brakes
- carbon disc
- Gearbox
- Red Bull 7-speed semi-automatic
- Gears
- Seven-speed semi-automatic gearbox with reverse gear
- Tyres
- Bridgestone Potenza; OZ Wheels (front and rear): 13"
- Fuel
- Total
- Engine
- Renault RS27-2010
- Configuration
- 90° V8, limited to 18,000 RPM
- Capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Aspiration
- naturally aspirated
- Power
- 750 bhp
- Power note
- >750 hp @ 18,000 rpm
- Weight
- —
- Wheelbase
- —
- Track, front
- —
- Track, rear
- —
A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.
Every entry 38 entries
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Photographs
From Wikimedia Commons, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require.
A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.
Where this comes from
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Predecessor
- Red Bull RB5
- Successor
- Red Bull RB7
- Races (published)
- 19
- Wins (published)
- 9
- Poles (published)
- 15
- Confidence
- reference
- Specification source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_RB6
- Register source
- https://github.com/f1db/f1db