Red Bull Racing Team
The Red Bull Racing Team (formerly Team Red Bull ) was a motor racing team, which was based in Mooresville, North Carolina. It was active in the American NASCAR Sprint Cup and sat there from 2006 to 2011, two vehicles.
Sprint Cup
To enter the NASCAR sport, the team Red Bull purchased in 2006, the old headquarters of Penske Racing in Mooresville, North Carolina, which was relatively small compared to those of other NASCAR teams. In addition, the team of all used Dodge Charger of Bill Davis Racing, which is the headquarters for three races that you wanted to do at the end of the 2006 season, tended with bought. However, the team failed with drivers Bill Elliott and AJ Allmendinger on the qualifications of all races. The first of these races took place at Lowe 's Motor Speedway, the other two at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, where the qualifying failed due to rain, and the Texas Motor Speedway. In the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season, the team was then a two Toyota Camry, which were driven by Brian Vickers, who had previously worked for four years at Hendrick Motorsports under contract, and Allmendinger.
Car # 4 / # 82 / # 84
This car was first used in the 2007 season with the start number 84. Driver of the car was AJ Allmendinger, who came from the Formula racing and has hardly had NASCAR experience. He had early in the season major problems at all to qualify for the race. The Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was his first race, he finished it in 40th place his best qualifying results were eleventh place of the Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway and 13th at the Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400 Richmond International Raceway. He came into the race but only three times over the 30th place out and was ranked 43 in the overall standings, the best result was a 15th place in the Bank of America 500 at Lowe 's Motor Speedway.
After 2008, the qualification for the first three races each failed, Allmendinger was replaced for several races by Mike Skinner. Then Allmendinger drove the car back, which was now painted in silver. Towards the end of the season Scott Speed was the vehicle used in the following two years he was then a regular driver. In 2011, he was replaced by Kasey Kahne, who won the # 4, the November race at Phoenix, eight crossed the finish line in the top five and with a total of 15 top ten results ended the season in 14th place.
Car # 83
The start number 83 has been used since the 2007 season. In the first race of the season, the Daytona 500, one was not able to qualify. The first race, managed to qualify for the Vickers, was the Auto Club 500, in which he finished a respectable tenth place. It was the first top- 10 ranking in the Nextel Cup for the team Red Bull and Toyota. In Coca- Cola 600 at Lowe 's Motor Speedway Vickers came in fifth place finish, after he led 76 laps of the race, although his power steering was not working properly. Vickers reached also in the 3M Performance 400 and the Sharp AQUOS 500, the top 10. Overall, the car for 23 of the 36 races of the season qualified. Through the commitment of Kevin Hamlin as the new crew chief a great progress could be achieved in 2008, Vickers failed to qualify for all the races and establish itself in the midfield.
2009 Vickers won the Pure Michigan 400, and reached in the overall standings in 12th place in 2010 had Vickers after the 11th race for health reasons vacate the cockpit, and had to undergo heart surgery in July. The vehicle was driven initially by Casey Mears, followed by Reed Sorenson and Kasey Kahne. In addition, Boris Said once were and DTM Champion Mattias Ekström twice at the start, when running in Sonoma, he was even briefly in front before he was involved in an accident with Brad Keselowski and finished the race in 21st place. 2011 Vickers was after his recovery again at the start, but came back with 7 top ten results do not approach the success of 2009 and ended the season ranked 25th