It's amazing, you know
to be part of the Red Bull family.
It'll take a few days
for you to find your bearings.
Yeah.
When you come here, you realise,
and you straightaway
know why they've been so successful.
The amount of infrastructure
they have, development, people
you know they have very
capable people here.
We need some photos of you.
It's in a way very different
to the teams that I worked for.
Like a dog finding a new family,
you know, you've been with the family
for so many years.
It's just a dream
come true, you know.
Hi.
Hi Fiona, I'm Sergio.
Nice to meet you.
You good?
He missed it!
Adrian!
How are you doing, ok?
You good?
Good thanks you? Good to see you.
Nice break?
Yeah good actually.
You went back to Mexico I take it?
Yeah I went back home.
Back home for Christmas
and stuff.
All good?
Yeah it felt really short
this break?
The last race isn't even a month.
A month this weekend.
It's crazy how late it did go.
So what's your plan now Hugh?
Tour the factory
and meet whoever’s in.
So Adrian’s in there.
You’re neighbors.
And he still has a drawing board.
You draw in there?
Yes.
Really, can I see it?
Yeah of course.
Wow amazing.
I mean, for me, that's what I grew up on,
and I think I can -
well I know I can work quicker
than the guys can in CAD.
So I can get things done fairly quickly.
And you do it all yourself in here?
Yeah.
Well yeah, the bits I do.
The bits you do.
Very very impressed
to get that from Adrian
and then to see his big drawing machine
there. I was very impressed.
You know all the time
you cross through through his office,
he's drawing something so
the amount of communication
he has with the driver.
He understands what you're talking about.
Like a driver.
You know it's like
talking to a racing driver.
Adrian, good to see you. See you later.
Is that it?
Are we that good looking?
Alright I’ll let you finish your tour.
Yeah, Ok, bye.
This is Pierre's office.
Hello Pierre - good to see you back.
So happy to work again together, mate.
Vamos vamos!
Can one of you guys go to
show us in the simulator?
I’ve heard it looks really,
really impressive, no?
It's better than real life.
Hi Sergio, good to meet you.
This one.
We’re unlocked.
Hello.
Good to meet you.
Welcome.
It's going to feel so different.
I remember the last time
I changed teams was
seven years ago.
Hello mate, nice to meet you.
I think I can bring
a lot of experience, knowledge.
I've been in the sport
in different teams, in different eras
and know what what I need from myself.
But I also feel that
I can push the team forward
in certain areas.
There's already some good ideas
that we we've been sharing
with the team
that hopefully we can make some
some performance on track.
What is it?
So there's Katsu Curry
for lunch today.
Yeah I’ll take that one.
Chicken Katsu?
Yeah cool.
Morning.
Welcome.
Mission Control.
So this is our Ops Room.
Is this a screen?
Yeah, this is the screen,
it’s the biggest screen in Europe
I think. So over a race weekend
will normally have Strategy there,
Vehicle Dynamics,
Aero.
It's very different
in a way that it's a new team.
There are so many things
that you have to learn
and it just takes
a bit of time, you know?
But it's feeling
All the processes, putting that
that work into all the pre-season.
These are guys making all the...
Good to meet you. Sergio.
Yeah, we're in that time
where nothing comes
easy, you know you have to really
learn and work to get up to speed with
the car. It is the same for everybody.
There are a lot of drivers
changing teams so
It will be nice to see
who adapts the fastest to a new team.
Hello mate, you good?
Thank you mate.
All the paint shops.
You know how,
how its going to be, the new car
in terms of painting?
I haven't heard yet.
And then that's where we
lay everything up
before it goes in the autoclave
to be turned into solid composite bits.
So these are chassis that we’re prepping up.
Oh yes.
I mean, it's quite a
difference, you know,
because you basically
do everything in house.
Three buildings.
We've done two.
How many left?
Err.
Five?
That is impressive, man.
So we'll go back to MK7
where we went for breakfast,
and see if we can find the Valkyries.
They should be along there somewhere.
Have you had snow?
A little bit around here.
So we also have Advanced Technologies.
They did the screen on the IndyCar.
They did the Aeroscreen?
Yeah. They did the ventilator
project. I don't know
how much you heard about all of that.
Yeah, for COVID no?
Yeah.
They were heavily involved in that.
Yeah that was pretty nice to see.
Yeah.
So this is mainly marketing.
Here you do a lot of marketing, right?
That was the first time.
That’s Genty. He'll be your number one.
This is the latest one?
That was the 2019 car.
So much looking forward to holding the wheel.
You know the actual wheel.
You want to?
Yeah.
It’s very thin.
I used to have the DRS in here.
On a button, yeah?
But we do lots of practice with that.
Will do some playing with it tomorrow.
Yeah, pit confirm as well no?
Yeah, pit confirm and bite point, right?
Yes.
Something...
I think this is key to get on top of it.
Yeah, quickly enough you know
and we can get practicing that
in the simulator.
We've got the clutch paddles ready to go,
so your preference tomorrow
we can then use in the sim.
And go from there.
I still don't believe that I'm
that I'm here to be honest.
I never really consider it as an option.
Because not being part of,
of the Red Bull program
at a young age, it's
a dream come true, you know.
Be part of this Red Bull family.
It's just amazing.
D.C.
Yeah. He’s still there?
It still turns up.
He does a lot of our show car runs.
And where am I supposed to go?
How you doing? Alright?
We’ve just had a new space built
where we're going to train
our future esports racers.
Wow, wow.
Where is the FIFA? Over here?
FIFA I play a bit more.
I played with Max actually.
Oh really?
Yeah.
I have a PlayStation
at the track in the motorhome.
You want to fo check out...
Let’s go see Valkyrie.
Yeah.
I’ll just
phone Stuart.
Thank you mate.
This is impressive.
Yeah.
Pretty cool, no?
Yeah, I mean there's
nothing close to it, no?
Hey!
It feels it feels a bit
like a stewards room.
Yeah, yeah exactly!
The guys do...
They do the pit stop here?
See you.
See you tomorrow.
Yeah, see you tomorrow.
My name is Paul Monaghan.
I'm chief engineer of car engineering.
So I look after problems
most of the time.
We've done already.
A seat fit is more than just the seat,
it's installing the driver in the car.
There's pretty limited space
within them. There's pretty...
It’s a pretty tight set of confines.
by which you have to try
and accommodate them,
but you also have to handle five times
your body weight
under breaking, four times laterally,
keep them strapped in, keep them comfortable,
and allow them to drive
Monaco for two hours
or Silverstone for an hour and a half
and not become uncomfortable
in the car to the point it detracts
from the performance.
Well, he doesn't have the same
pedal installation, seat belt length
seat and steering wheel position as Max does,
but that's not uncommon.
So seat is a generic word,
it's really an installation
of the driver in the car.
Is that comfortable or uncomfortable?
I just feel too high.
I feel this seat will be too close.
Whether you're installing the shortest
or the tallest, you've
got to make it work.
There's no point in
putting them in to be uncomfortable.
How many seat fits have I done?
I don't know.
Fourty or fifty probably. Quite a few.
We try the belts?
Comfortable is probably the wrong word
to say they need to be installed
such that they can drive the car
without getting bruises,
without getting bashed up
without sore losing feeling in limbs
because we got too much
pressure on the bottom of the legs.
Things like that.
Comfort’s not the right word.
These cars are not
going to be comfortable.
You need to be installed to do your job
and drive it competitively.
And then we've got a good seat fit.
There you go.
Hey, I'm liking this one
because I can't see more the wheel.
Yeah, it will also be very nice
for me to see the car
on the ground with the tires.
The driver needs to be secure.
Certainly during cornering loads
because there's a high level
of G-force on his body.
And he needs to feel secure in the car.
If the driver feels comfortable with the seat,
that’s it - he's happy.
Do you think we can get enough support
around the shoulders?
Yeah.
Are you happy with that?
Yeah.
So it's a two part foam.
It’s a two part polyurethane foam.
so the same principles still apply.
So you just have a bag,
pour the foam into the bag.
The bag then expands around the driver
and encapsulates the driver.
on average, round about two hours.
Possibly longer, maybe shorter.
More time they’re in the sport,
the more they realise what they need
from the outset.
Remind me to put just
a little bit across there, which we can do.
And now it's a case of trim it,
and see what we got.
I wouldn't want to say that
one driver is going to come
along and need a seat fit every week,
and some will come along and just do one.
It’s how well we get it right
first time round, isn't it?
Hair is OK? You said it’s good?
OK!
Hi, I'm Sergio Perez,
Bull Racing Formula One driver.
Hola, soy Sergio Pérez,
Red Bull Racing
Piloto de Fórmula Uno.
It's obviously a new challenge
and new opportunity
so it's a moment for me
to prove it to myself that I can
I can take it into the next step.
You know, now.
Then I look forward to to work with him
and push together forward
as a team.
Se valora más el tener a tu
familia completa con salud,
son tiempos difíciles para
todos, pero ha sido.
Emocionante estar con todos.
It was very nice the campaign.
Did you see that?
Yeah - keep Checo, keep Checo.
Yeah.
How was the announcement in terms of...
Oh really?
Yeah.
I love so much the brand
I have so much admiration
for what they do.
The amount of support
that they do to sports.
You know things in life.
You end up in in places
that you dreamed of. So...
Thank you, I'm so happy to be here.
I still I have to pinch myself
couple of times because it's a...
It's just a dream
to be to be part of the brand
and to be part of this,
of this amazing team.
Cheers mate and good to meet you.
Thank you buddy.
When I put the Red Bull
branding on on myself,
it's like just like wow, you know,
I just look forward to having
a very successful start.
But more than that,
a very successful season.
I think
these opportunities
only come once in your life, so...
I know that and I'm
ready to make it work.