2014 Red Bull Season

The 2014 Red Bull Season was 's tenth as a constructor, and the sixth with Sebastian Vettel as a driver. This season was also both Vettel and Red Bull's fourth as defending champions.
It was the year where Red Bull's dominance ended after 4 years and Mercedes would dominate the Constructor's Championship until 2022, when Red Bull claimed their first title in the hybrid era. Mark Webber was replaced in the other car by compatriot Daniel Ricciardo, who graduated from the sister team Toro Rosso, after Webber retired from Formula One at the end of . Whilst Vettel's title defence ended in a winless season, Ricciardo won his first Grand Prix in Canada, following this up with consecutive wins in Hungary and Belgium.
==Race-by-race==
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The qualifying session proved to be a different outcome for each driver; Vettel failed to make it out of Q2 for the first time since the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix, but Ricciardo, in his first Red Bull start, had an amazing day, and as a result scored his first-ever front row start on his home track, posting a time of 1:44.547, about 3 milliseconds off Lewis Hamilton's pole time.
However, the opening race was a disaster for for Red Bull. Vettel's streak of 9 wins was ended on lap 3, after he retired from the race with engine problems. This proved the least of their worries, when, after Ricciardo looked to have finished on the podium on his Red Bull debut, he was disqualified five hours later for breaching the FIA's newly implemented fuel consumption regulations, promoting Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen to second and his team-mate Jenson Button to third, and bettering Magnussen's podium finish in his first Grand Prix. This led to Red Bull leaving the opening round on zero points for the first time since 2009, with this race being the first since the 2012 Italian Grand Prix in which the Austrian outfit failed to score any points.
Nico Rosberg who won the race, was the first driver other than Vettel to win a Grand Prix since Lewis Hamilton at the 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix, after which Vettel's streak would begin.
Ricciardo became the first driver to be disqualified from a Grand Prix since the duo of Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, when they lost their points finishes due to a rear wing irregularity.
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Vettel secured the team's first points this season by finishing third behind the Silver Arrows of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Ricciardo was having a good race until his third pit-stop, when he was released before his left-front tyre was correctly fastened. He then had to be pushed back into the pits. He then experienced the failure of his front wing, which forced him to retire. To make matters worse, he was issued a 10-place grid penalty for the Bahrain Grand Prix for an unsafe pit release.
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Once again, Vettel was eliminated in Q2. Additionally, Ricciardo's 10-place grid penalty issued at the previous race took effect, demoting him to 13th place after finishing 3rd in qualifying with a time of 1:34.051, putting Vettel back into 10th place. Their race fared much better, however, as Ricciardo and Vettel finished 4th and 6th respectively to score 20 crucial World Championship points.
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In this race, Sebastian Vettel set the first of two fastest laps this season.
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Ricciardo won his first Grand Prix here, becoming the 105th different race winner, as well as the fourth Australian Grand Prix winner, following Jack Brabham, Alan Jones, and Ricciardo's predecessor at Red Bull, Mark Webber. Vettel finished in third place to give Red Bull their first double podium finish of the season.
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For the third time this season, Sebastian Vettel failed to reach Q3.
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Ricciardo achieved the first of two consecutive victories at the Hungaroring.
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Ricciardo achieved the second of two consecutive victories at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
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In this race, Red Bull's title rivals secured the first of eight consecutive World Constructor's Championships. Ricciardo and Vettel finished in 7th and 8th place respectively.
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Vettel's worst qualifying of the year where he failed to reach Q2, which was compounded when he was penalised for exceeding the season limit of five power unit component changes, by changing a sixth on his Red Bull prior to qualifying, and was forced to start from the Pit Lane.
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Despite being forced to retire from this race with a suspension issue, Ricciardo secured third place in the World Drivers' Championship.
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In Formula One's one and only double-points race, as well as Vettel's last race for Red Bull before his move to , Ricciardo and Vettel originally qualified in 5th and 6th places respectively, but were both excluded from qualifying and demoted to the back of the grid for using illegal front wings. In the race, they finished in 4th and 8th place respectively, scoring 44 championship points thanks to the double-points system.
==Results==
Grand Prix	No.	Car 	Driver 	Grid 	Pos	Pts.	Pos.
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	12th 	 	0 	
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	 	 	0 	
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	15 	6th
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	5th 	 	15 	6th
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	10th 	 	35 	4th
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	13th†	 	35 	4th
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	57 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	 	 	57 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	15th‡	 	84 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	 	 	84 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	4th 	 	99 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	 	 	99 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	139 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	6th 	 	139 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	12th 	 	143 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	5th 	 	143 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	168 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	8th 	 	168 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	6th 	 	188 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	5th 	 	188 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	219 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	4th 	 	219 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	 	 	254 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	5th 	 	254 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	8th 	 	272 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	9th 	 	272 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	4th 	 	305 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	 	 	305 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	9th 	 	332 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	6th 	 	332 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	10th 	 	342 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	6th 	 	342 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	PL§ 	 	363 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	5th 	 	363 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	6th 	 	373 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	9th 	 	373 	2nd
 	1 	RB10	Vettel 	19th≈	 	405 	2nd
 	3 	RB10	Ricciardo	20th≈	 	405 	2nd
* † = Qualified third, but had a ten-place grid penalty due to his unsafe release at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
* ‡ = Qualified tenth, but was given a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.
* § = Started from the pitlane after exceeding the limit of five power unit component changes.
* ≈ = Both Red Bull drivers were excluded from the qualifying results and were relegated to the back of the grid due to the team having illegal front wings.
==Complete standings==
 
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Category:2014 Formula One Season
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