Like A Bull In A China Shop

I am sure that most people when they hear the phrase, 'like a bull in a china shop' think destruction.  Utter and total annihilation.  They think of everything being destroyed with nothing left to salvage.  But if you have witched the Discovery Channel, the saying, 'like a bull in a china shop' bring to lite a new idiom.  A bull in a china shop is less likely to knock something down or break it than my two year old nephew.  


"The Team placed shelves full of china inside a bull pen and released bulls inside it. Surprisingly, the bulls actively avoided the shelves, even when there were multiple bulls inside the pen at the same time. A few dishes were knocked to the ground when as many as four bulls were running around, but overall the bulls proved surprisingly nimble."

This new meaning for the saying bring to mind the actions and reactions of the Red Bull Racing team.   The agility of the drivers and concentration of the team is outstanding.  Everyone knows what needs to be done and times it perfectly as to keep pace.  Just like a bull in a china shop, the team is nimble and kept on their toes.   The average person counts in minutes and hours as Red Bull counts in seconds and milliseconds. 

I look at the way that Red Bull Racing is handling the 2010 season so far and when it looks like all the other teams are looking to next year's car, Red Bull Racing is still concentrating on the 2010 season.  Posted all over the Internet the last few days is the wonderful idea of the RB6 being fitted with a redesigned F-Duct system.  Red Bull has tried running an older version of it first seen in Turkey and it failed.  There are even whispers on the Internet that it caused the Red Bull team mates to collide.  

Can you image the idea of a team that is already ahead of the pack completely eradicating all chances of any other team to claim stake to Driver's or Constructor's titles?  This is a team that has come out of no where and in 5 years, done what it took Ferrari to reclaim in 21 years?  No one thought in 2005 when Red Bull Racing came to launch that they would become one of the most awe inspiring teams 5 years later.   After 1979, it took Ferrari till 2000 to reclaim the Driver's title. 21 years compared to the Red Bull 5.  And it doesn't seem like it is going to their head.  Red Bull Racing seems to be more for the fans than ever.  

If Adrian Newey's title designed RB6 takes to the F-duct like all the title contenders, Red Bull Racing will be untouchable.  We will, or more like Ferrari and McLaren will being seeing a lot of the tail ends of the two RB6's in the up coming races. This has raised the team’s confidence that it may yet be able to keep pace in Korea, with Vettel acknowledging: “We are no longer losing so much on the straights.”

With spirits up and hopes raised, I cannot wait till the First Inaugural Korean Grand Prix!