Red Bull in the Himalayas

Sparky · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:34

http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite...unning-Showcar-In-Khardung-La-021243102643335

Was speaking to Tony the test/showcar team boss today who said that the car struggled like mad with the lack of oxygen, team didnt fair to well either!

Just thought id share.

stoke1863 · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:38

That was pretty awsome!

How did they have to modify the car to make the turning circle much smaller? Id imagone some of the slow tight bends would be impossible at race spec

Glaucus · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:40

Do you not have an official red bull YouTube channel, if not get on it.

Sparky · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:45

stoke1863 said:
That was pretty awsome!

How did they have to modify the car to make the turning circle much smaller? Id imagone some of the slow tight bends would be impossible at race spec

No idea but i will findout for you

TaKeN · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:47

Awesome! So what sort of changes were required to make the engine run properly at that height?

Shimmy · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:00

I was in that region just last week!

Sparky · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:04

AcidHell2 said:
Do you not have an official red bull YouTube channel, if not get on it.

Think thats all down to our marketing dept. mate,they can be a funny bunch.

Sparky · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:05

TaKeN said:
Awesome! So what sort of changes were required to make the engine run properly at that height?

Well i know it was turned right down and running a different map but other than that, your guess is as good as mine. Again ,i will ask the questions tomorrow and report back.

Glaucus · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:21

CS||nuTs said:
Think thats all down to our marketing dept. mate,they can be a funny bunch.

Well they need telling buck up, or ship out.

dannyjo22 · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:19

stoke1863 said:
How did they have to modify the car to make the turning circle much smaller? Id imagone some of the slow tight bends would be impossible at race spec

Tighter than the hairpin at monaco?

I know the 97 williams turning circle wouldn't get round the hotel hairpin at monaco so they used the power in the engine to bring the back round.

Yet another record for Red Bull

FrankJH · 13 Oct 2011 at 05:54

Well done RBR (yet another record you hold lol) and thanks CS

maybe I wasnt concerntrating but I didnt see anything that was a tighter hairpin than Monaco there (I appreciate massive altitude differences though)

Duke · 13 Oct 2011 at 08:46

Love the demo runs RB do

Overlag · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:23

CS||nuTs said:
http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite...unning-Showcar-In-Khardung-La-021243102643335

Was speaking to Tony the test/showcar team boss today who said that the car struggled like mad with the lack of oxygen, team didnt fair to well either!

Just thought id share.

looked great!

Just watched the one on the beach, looked like the car blew up at the end? :eek:

alchemistkevin · 13 Oct 2011 at 12:27

Great feat. good on you RBR.

Sparky · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:56

As promised

Hi mate
We had to pressurise the fuel system because of lack of pressure at that height.
Cosworth also did a lot of work on the fuel management which made the car run very rich.
The lack of oxygen at that altitude reduced the power by aroung 30%.
We have a Monaco rack fitted to the car to allow great sterring lock, this was fine for most corners but
Neel had to spin up the rear wheels a bit to get around the really tight corners.

Cheers.
Tony.

Red Bull Racing Support Team Manager

alchemistkevin · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:00

CS||nuTs said:
As promised

Hi mate
We had to pressurise the fuel system because of lack of pressure at that height.
Cosworth also did a lot of work on the fuel management which made the car run very rich.
The lack of oxygen at that altitude reduced the power by aroung 30%.
We have a Monaco rack fitted to the car to allow great sterring lock, this was fine for most corners but
Neel had to spin up the rear wheels a bit to get around the really tight corners.

Cheers.
Tony.

Red Bull Racing Support Team Manager

thank you. thank you. thank you.

good insight there. so it just wasn't a simple ECU tweak then...

arknor · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:11

CS||nuTs said:
As promised

Hi mate
We had to pressurise the fuel system because of lack of pressure at that height.
Cosworth also did a lot of work on the fuel management which made the car run very rich.
The lack of oxygen at that altitude reduced the power by aroung 30%.
We have a Monaco rack fitted to the car to allow great sterring lock, this was fine for most corners but
Neel had to spin up the rear wheels a bit to get around the really tight corners.

Cheers.
Tony.

Red Bull Racing Support Team Manager

were you using a renault engine?

TaKeN · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:17

CS||nuTs said:
As promised

Hi mate
We had to pressurise the fuel system because of lack of pressure at that height.
Cosworth also did a lot of work on the fuel management which made the car run very rich.
The lack of oxygen at that altitude reduced the power by aroung 30%.
We have a Monaco rack fitted to the car to allow great sterring lock, this was fine for most corners but
Neel had to spin up the rear wheels a bit to get around the really tight corners.

Cheers.
Tony.

Red Bull Racing Support Team Manager

Awesome

Thanks Buddy!

Sparky · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:22

arknor said:
were you using a renault engine?

No the running show car uses a Cosworth unit.

arknor · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:46

oh interesting so is it the same cosworth some of the teams are using this year? do you use a different gearbox to?