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Was Adrian Newey aware that he was designing a World Championship winning car? Who knows... all that matters is: In 2010, with the highly promising combination of two great drivers, the RB6 and the entire Red Bull Racing Team, it was possible to round off a hugely successful season in style by crossing the finish line with both the Constructors Championship and the Driver's Championship.

Closely followed by Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel thereby became the youngest ever Formula One world champion – at the tender age of 23.

Like the RB4, the RB5 was also developed by Adrian Newey and Geoff Willis. Sebastian Vettel was signed up to join the team. He liked to give his cars names and the RB5 became known as “Kate’s dirty sister”. In it, Sebastian came runner-up in the drivers’ championship.

His team colleague Mark Webber took fourth place and Red Bull Racing finished second in the constructors’ championship.

The RB4 bears the signature of two excellent designers, Adrian Newey and Geoff Willis. After initial testing Red Bull Racing with drivers David Coulthard and Mark Webber is talked about as the strongest competitor to the established teams.

The season yielded the youngest world champion in Formula One history in the shape of Lewis Hamilton as well as the youngest pole setter and race winner with Sebastian Vettel’s victory in Monza in a Scuderia Toro Rosso.

The RB3 stands out with a thoroughbred Adrian Newey design and for the first time is equipped with a Renault engine.

The Special Edition of the RB3 is decorated with about 15,000 faces of enthusiastic Formula One fans. With each picture, a donation was made in 2007 to Wings for Life - a non-profit research foundation established to support and accelerate scientific progress and medical research to heal paraplegia caused by spinal cord injury (SCI).

David Coulthard and Christian Klien were the drivers in the RB2 for the 2006 season.

After Red Bull had taken over the Jaguar Racing team in November 2004 and contested its first season as the Red Bull Racing team and with the RB1, the main objective for the second season was to gain further ground with the same drivers. There were early signs of success when David Coulthard raced to third place in Monaco. At the age of 24, Fernando Alonso became the youngest driver to win the championship.

Following the takeover of the Red Bull Racing contract, Toro Rosso began to incorporate Ferrari engines in 2007. Drivers Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed derived everything they could from the 056 V8 engine and in doing so gained the respect of their colleagues that season.

In 2008, Sebastian Vettel drove to his and Toro Rosso’s first ever Grand Prix victory, making him the youngest Formula 1 driver in pole position and the youngest driver to ever win a Formula 1 race.

The Austrian sculptor and painter Jos Pirkner designed the livery for the Toro Rosso car in 2006. Despite having achieved only a few successes, the former Minardi team was an icon of Italian motor racing. The translation of the team name into Italian was therefore a statement of respect to the Italian roots of the racing team.

Pirkner first tried out his design on a remote-controlled car and then painted it onto a full-scale Formula One car. Knud Tiroch, one of Austria’s most well-known spray paint artists, had the honour of transferring the bull design in precise detail onto all the other cars and the team trucks.

The 2000 season went extremely well. The drivers Mika Salo and Pedro Diniz had the C19 well under control and improved from race to race.

Michael Schumacher won the drivers’ championship for the third time. It was his first world championship title for the Ferrari team and the first drivers’ title won by Ferrari since 1979. Mika Salo took 11th place.

1999 was a year of excitement and change. For the first time, Bridgestone supplied the tyres for the Formula One team. Minor problems with pit stops were quickly remedied and Jean Alesi, in his second year with Sauber, and Pedro Diniz, replacing Johnny Herbert, established a steady midfield position.

One of the unforgettable moments of that season was without doubt Diniz’s spectacular rollover crash at the Nürburgring after an evasive manoeuvre.

The car built in 1998 was driven by Johnny Herbert and Jean Alesi, who finished third in the Belgian Grand Prix. Sauber Petronas came sixth in the constructors’ championship with ten points.

In 1995 and 1996, Sauber was the Ford works team; from 1997 onwards, Ferrari engines were used. The Sauber Petronas C16 was raced by several drivers in 1997. Originally, Johnny Herbert and Nicola Larini were team colleagues, but after five races Larini left and was replaced by Gianni Morbidelli. He broke his hand twice and was in turn replaced by newcomer Norberto Fontana. None of the three could match Johnny Herbert, however. He took third place in Hungary.

The C in the name of the Peter Sauber racing team conceals a secret of which many insiders are not even aware. It stands for his wife Christine.

Despite or perhaps because of the many further developments of the C14 during the first of ten F1 seasons of Red Bull together with Sauber Petronas, the team achieved its first podium place. The drivers in that season were Karl Wendlinger and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.