Red Bull unveils 10th Formula 1 car

Red Bull drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo have unveiled the new RB10 ahead of the start of the first pre-season testing in Jerez, Spain. The team hopes the new car will keep it at the top of the pack and lead it to a fifth straight World Championship.

German world champion Sebastian Vettel will himself be targeting a fifth consecutive title. The new car is Red BullRed BullAustria, 2004 > present12 models
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's first real attempt at maintaining their dominance as every team faces the sports' massive rule changes.

“It's a big change for all the teams, including ourselves," Vettel said of the switch to V6 turbocharged engines featuring much more powerful energy recovery systems. "I think the last couple of years, we always knew - kind of - what to expect, which is very different this year.”

For 2014 starts the season with no real expectations as it is very hard to predict who did a better job interpreting the new rules.

"Therefore, I think it's difficult to have any sorts of expectations. So I think the most important thing is, once we get going, [to] understand the car, to understand what it needs and then hopefully build on to that."

Like several rival teams Adrian Newey's interpretation of the rules book delivered a design with a nose with a narrow protruding section at the front. Unlike F1's last big rule change in 2009 the emphasis this time around is on the new hybrid power units.

Red Bull will surely be hoping that its engine partner RenaultRenaultFrance, 1898 > present189 models
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will help them maintain their advantage and Team Principal Christian Horner is confident the French manufacturer will do so.

"The reset button has essentially been pressed for 2014 with the big regulation change. So it's a clean sheet of paper and an opportunity for the design team to get their teeth into a new challenge," said Horner.

"The reset button has essentially been pressed for 2014 with the big regulation change. So it's a clean sheet of paper and an opportunity for the design team to get their teeth into a new challenge," said Horner.