Paul Monaghan: Red Bull's race for more records

F1: Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Paul Monaghan, Red Bull Racing’s chief engineer, has been with the team from the very beginning of their Formula 1 venture in 2005.

He’s experienced the highs and lows of the team’s evolution from racing rookies into serial winners.

How does the team’s first era of dominance with Sebastian Vettel compare to their current success with Max Verstappen? What’s the secret to the Dutchman’s speed? And, with the competition getting closer, Adrian Newey leaving and Red Bull making their own engines for 2026, what does the team’s future hold?

Speaking to Tom Clarkson, Paul shares fascinating insight from nearly two decades with the team and tells some very entertaining anecdotes from working with Ayrton Senna at McLaren and Fernando Alonso at Renault earlier on in his career.

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0:00.0	They have more competition in 2024, but Red Bull Racing's chief engineer Paul Moynihan believes they're still the team to beat.
0:21.0	We're here fighting against some automotive giants, Ferrari Mercedes, McLaren Williams.
0:26.1	It seems a phenomenal history in this sport.
0:28.0	We're relative newcomers, the Fizzy drinks company on the block if you like.
0:32.0	We've got one of the best drivers there is around.
0:34.8	We're going to do our own engine. We're moving forward as a team. We're well funded.
0:38.1	You know, we're quite stable. At the moment, this still feels like home, so I would go anywhere else.
0:43.0	Red Bull has been Moynihan's home since their inception back in 2005.
0:48.0	He's helped transform the team into history-making multiple world champions with Sebastian Vettle and Max Vistapen.
0:56.1	And before that, he also set the wheels in motion for another F-1 icon success,
1:01.6	Race Engineering Fernando Alonso at Reno. We put dry
1:05.2	tires on his car on a damp grid in Australia. He sat there looking at the
1:08.9	seatbelt shaking his head and I thought, oh this is a great star, isn't he
1:12.1	going to kill me after this.
1:14.0	He's a pretty fierce competitor even by that point.
1:17.0	But Australia overtook people all over the place on his dry tires on the wet track,
1:21.0	and then we ran out of fields.
1:22.0	A flibbonne's, why am I pitiable? Because we ran out of fields a flipping safety car he came in he's why am I
1:24.1	pity because you're out of field why am I a field because you've used it all and
1:27.4	nothing appeased him at that point his kid is competitive. and this is F1 Beyond the Grid.
1:43.0	As an engineer in F1 for more than 30 years,
1:46.0	Paul Moynihan has worked with some of the sport's most iconic teams and drivers.
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