The Red Bull Racing team was one of the many jack-in-the-box packages of 2009, springing from their midfield mundane performance and leapfrogging teams like McLaren and Ferrari to bag second position in the 2009 Constructors Championship. Vettel and Webber are a strong team, bringing to the grid tons of pure grit and passion to excel. The team has seen a complete turn around in the 2009 season and Cristian Horner surely has his fingers crossed for a similar season in 2010.

Red Bull Racing is among the new teams that have seen just about three to four seasons in their current form. The team came about when the Austrian beverage major bought out Jaguar Racing in 2004. But this is not the team's first steps into the sport. Their sister team Scuderia Toro Rosso is also a competitor and Red Bull is involved in GP2 for a while where their main aim is to promote upcoming drivers. A result of this involvement has seen drivers like Enrique Bernoldi, Christian Klien, Patrick Friesacher, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed make it to Formula 1.

In its inaugural season in 2005, Red Bull used Cosworth engines to make the transition from Jaguar easier. The Jaguar chassis was renamed as RB01 and the results it showed, though not spectacular, were steady. They chose David Coulthard as their lead driver hoping his experience would he helpful for the fledgling team and the second seat was to be shared between Christian Klien and Vitantonio Luizzi. For Luizzi, though, the season was a blur and he got to race only in four races.

For a first outing, Red Bull performed commendably. They managed 34 points and finished 7th after being pipped by a fast-improving BAR Honda. Both their best finishes were courtesy of the experienced Coulthard who finished fourth in Australia and the European GP. Technical issues remained, though, but altogether, this wasn't a bad season at all. In fact, they had managed to score more than twice the points the Jaguar Racing scored in two seasons!

Coulthard continued with the team for 2006 as did Klien but Liuzzi was replaced by Robert Doornbos. Coulthard once again shone but only briefly. A third place finish in Monaco was the team's first and only podium finish so far. They did get into the points a few times thereafter, but were never seriously competitive. Klien tried his best, but the car was nowhere near the leaders and too many retirements in the first few races hurt the end result. Using Ferrari engines that almost got them to the same level as Ferrari was also not enough. Perhaps the tyre difference was telling!

For 2007, Red Bull hired Adrian Newey from McLaren and passed on the Ferrari engine contract to Toro Rosso in favour of McLaren engines. Coulthard will continue to lead the team on the track with Australian Mark Webber for company. Liuzzi, meanwhile, would now be racing with the Toro Rosso team!

Red Bull comes to the sport with a will to win. But more than that, their vision is to bring back the fun in the sport. To this effect, they are already involved in marketing activities that bring out the 'lighter side' of Formula 1 like a satirical magazine called 'The Red Bulletin'. They have now had two seasons to settle down and are not going anywhere soon either, having signed the Concorde Agreement to assure their commitment to the sport. They just needed to start winning now!

2008 was a season Red Bull Racing could dismiss as a bad dream. David Coulthard managed to score only 8 points throughout the season, ultimately quitting F1 at the end of 2008. Mark Webber managed to earn the remaining 21 points to guide Red Bull Racing to a seventh position finish in the Constructors Championship.

The next season, 2009, saw Red Bull Racing sign Sebastian Vettel and gear up for the season big time! The gamble paid off as the team managed four 1-2 finishes in the season, and a total of sixteen podiums including six victories. The team had molted into a totally competent outfit, capable of bringing home the silverware. They finished just eighteen points adrift from the winners Brawn GP who had a great run trough the first half of the season.

Come 2010, Red Bull Racing continues with the same lineup, and with greater punch than ever before. This time around the season is going to see real competition as almost all the teams are potential winners, McLaren, Mercedes GP, Ferrari, Renault, William are all potential title runners and Red Bull will really need its wings this time if it wants to achieve the feat that it nearly accomplished in 2009!