The 2010 Red Bull Racing car – the RB6 will be unveiled on the first day of the first Jerez test on Wednesday 10th February.
Attending the launch will be Red Bull Racing’s drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel alongside team principal Christian Horner and the car’s architect, chief technical officer Adrian Newey.
Why are RBR missing the first pre-season test in Valencia? Newey gave his reasoning:
“We wanted to give ourselves as much time as possible to research and develop the car. We felt that because the car is evolutionary, we hopefully didn’t need to be out early to establish the basic concept of the car. We wanted to allow ourselves as much time as possible to research it.”
Why haven’t RBR elected to take the 2009 RB5 to the test in Valencia? Christian Horner said:
“Due to the limit on tyres available to the teams. There’s no point in burning up engine mileage and rubber on an RB5. We’d rather use the tyres for quality testing at the three tests that we have confirmed we’ll run at, starting with the first test in Jerez.”
