SINGAPORE Cheap Yaya Sanogo Jersey , Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Red Bull Racing has continued to make small strides so far in the first season of the V6 era and will continue to work hard to get "marginal gains on track," team principal Christian Horner said.
Red Bull, which won four consecutive constructor's titles over the past four years, struggled in the first races of this season to adapt to the new regulations, but Horner said its performance in the last several races has been very strong.
"It's important to remember that the V6 era is in its infancy Cheap Wojciech Szczesny Jersey , the biggest challenge we had at the start of the year was reliability," he said in written answers to questions from Xinhua ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix on Sept. 19 to Sept. 21.
Ahead of the weekend, engineers were working hard amid the heat and humidity in the team's garage on the side of the Marin Bay Street Circuit. It was filled with monitors, cables and servers. Simulations and tests were also being done in the factory in England.
The Red Bull team has been relying on its innovation partner AT&T to help it transmit some 200 gigabytes of live data over a race weekend.
"I am not very much of an IT person, but I know that's a lot Cheap Theo Walcott Jersey ," said Alan Peasland, head of technical partnerships.
Red Bull Racing has been known for its strength in in-season development, he added.
The setup of the car for qualification and the race is determined by a combination of the data and feedback generated in the free practice sessions, data gathered from previous races and simulations run in the factory.
With six races to go, Red Bull is now runner-up but is 182 points down compared with the Mercedes' 454 points. On the drivers' standings Cheap Shkodran Mustafi Jersey , Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took the top two positions with 238 and 216 points, respectively.
The winner of a race gets 25 points, while the runner-up gets 18. The third-placed driver gets 15 points.
The F1 is as much a technology race as it is a car race. The car development has been especially important this season as the 2.4 liter V8 engine that had been used was replaced by a 1.6 liter turbo-charged V6 hybrid engine. It is believed to be the biggest change of rules in at least 10 years. The Red Bull is down on brake horse power, making it difficult for the team to compete on circuits where it is typically helpful to have more powerful cars.
"Now the focus is on gathering data, learning as much as we can and converting that into marginal gains on track Cheap Sead Kolasinac Jersey ," he said.
"Modern regulations are such that hose silver bullets of performance through aerodynamic masterstrokes are all but impossible to find," he added.
Horner said that there hadn't been any significant leaps forward. However, he said that the team has had some steps forward in the engine mapping software and the fuel formulations, but is still some way down on power.
The Red Bull has had a competitive chassis this season.
The car design race has obviously begun for even the next season. Horner said that the Red Bull is still in a competitive championship this season but the good news is that there will be limited regulation changes being implemented between this season and next so that the work on the current RB10 holds relevance to the design of next year's car.
"We cannot afford to ease off but at the same time we have ambitions of creating an RB11 which is capable of competing with the Mercedes," he said.
The Singapore race Cheap Santi Cazorla Jersey , a night race in the hot and humid weather of the tropical island, will be on a street circuit of 5.065 kilometers with 23 corners.