The Red Bull RB7 is a Formula Oneracing car designed by the Red Bull Racing team for the 2011 Formula One season. It was driven by defending champion Sebastian Vettel and Australian driver Mark Webber for the third year running. The highly competitive and reliable RB7 took 12 victories and 27 podiums as Red Bull took the Constructors' Championship and Vettel taking the Drivers' Championship title that year.
The car was fastest throughout Barcelona testing with Vettel at the wheel. It won the first race of the season at Melbourne with Vettel, whilst Webber finished fifth. In the nineteen races of the 2011 season, the RB7 only failed to finish in the top five twice, when Mark Webber crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix and when Sebastian Vettel retired from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel leads Webber during the Italian Grand Prix; the former would go on to win the race
Vettel used the RB7 to claim the 2011 World Drivers' Championship in Japan and Red Bull won the World Constructors' Championship the following weekend in South Korea. The car achieved three 1-2 finishes during the season. It is one of the most dominant Formula One cars ever built, winning 12 of the 19 races and claiming all but one pole position in the 2011 season, in part due to the innovative but controversial exhaust-blown diffuser.
Sebastian Vettel, who (since joining Scuderia Toro Rosso) makes a habit of naming his cars, named his RB7 chassis Kinky Kylie.[5]
The RB7 was the first Red Bull car to assume Renault full-works team partnership status[6] after the Renault F1 Team was rebranded to Lotus Renault GP and later Lotus F1 Team following Renault's sale of their 25 percent stake in the team to Lotus Cars in late 2010.[7] The RB7 was also the first-ever KERS-equipped Formula One car to win the constructors' title.
Later uses
After the 2011 season, the RB7 was frequently used in demonstrations and rewrapped in different liveries throughout the years:
On 15 March 2025, the Brazilian city of Curitiba, Paraná staged the Red Bull Showrun with two versions of RB7. The F1 model was driven by Patrick Friesacher, and the Racing Bulls version by Scott Speed. This event mobilized over 100,000 people to watch and was an absolute success.[12]
On 2 April 2025, these cars reappeared with the same livery during the Red Bull Showrun x Powered by Honda event at Tokyo ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.
On 26 July 2025, the Lithuanian city of Klaipėda organized the second Red Bull Showrun in Lithuania, the car was driven by Patrick Friesacher.
On 13 September 2025, the car took part of the Red Bull Motormania in Magny-Cours in France. Two RB7s were driven by F1 driver Isack Hadjar and former F1 driver Sébastien Buemi. They notably demonstrated with former MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa and multiple WRC champion Sébastien Loeb, each on their own machinery.
Complete Formula One results
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
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