Red Bull target team title
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is determined to follow up Sebastian Vettel's drivers' championship and make amends for one of his marque's rare failures of recent times this weekend.
It was at last year's rain-soaked inaugural Korean Grand Prix that Horner thought his team's constructors' title hopes had been washed away. Mark Webber, leading the championship at the time, was caught out by the wet track and crashed out on lap 19, while Vettel suffered a blown engine 12 laps from home.
Red Bull are currently 130 points clear of nearest rivals McLaren and need to be 129 ahead after Sunday's race to clinch back-to-back constructors' crowns, with Horner saying: "The two titles carry equal status, although obviously the drivers' is the one the public remember."
He added: "Within the team, if you ask the guys on the shop floor the constructors' is the one where their pride is because that is where they are measured against their peers up and down the pitlane. And their bonus is paid on the constructors', so that is the one that carries the real weight.
"From a prestige point of view it is right up there, so they both have the same weight, the same value to us, but right now only half the mission is accomplished.
"The drivers' world championship is the first part, the second part is to retain the constructors', and although we've a healthy lead, we take nothing for granted."
As far as chief technical officer Adrian Newey is concerned, no-one within the team can "let their hair down just yet".
Newey has been the brains behind Red Bull's rise, and for him the constructors' is the measure of a team's standing.
"We don't pay overtime, but the overtime that has gone on back at the factory is amazing," he said. "Everybody is so dedicated to achieve what we have and there is a really good spirit in the factory.
"The factory itself is nothing special, just a bunch of industrial units in Milton Keynes. The base is a building, but the atmosphere inside is fantastic. It is a pleasure to work there. Now, if we can do the double, it would be truly amazing."
