12 crazy stunts Red Bull did with F1 cars

a major part of Red Bulls Formula One legacy will undoubtedly be its domination of the championship from 2010 through 2013 and while it's still searching for another title since then there are many spectacular feats it has accomplished which is rivals simply come nowhere near from demonstrations all over the world to hitching color-coded caravans onto the back of Aston Martin's at Zandvoort rebel is f1 single biggest asset when it comes to taking the show to the people and its most ambitious crazy and sometimes seemingly impossible stunts take f1 cars to truly bizarre places but which is the best for the purpose of this list we focus on the hardest to pull off and the most spectacular that means excluding show runs they're great and they've world crowds in Almaty Beirut Belfast Bogota Bologna California Cape Town Hanoi her darabad Muscat Santiago sand petersburg tokyo vienna and many more but donuts in the street simply don't hold a candle to the entries here even an airstrip run with a fighter jet and a salt desert challenge didn't make this list let us know your favorite in the comments below and remember to give this video a like and subscribe to our Channel but for now let's dive into the 12 craziest things ripple was done with an f1 car okay we're sort of breaking a rule here straight away because this is technically part of a show run but it was so much more than just locking off a small part of road and burning some rubber that this particular show run wasn't just confined to those traditional elements is what sneaks it onto the tail end of our list David Coulthard who you'll see it several times in this video drives around public roads through cobbled squares and down a small strip by the harbour as he passes some of Copenhagen's greatest landmarks and also members of the public a few years later talk of a Danish Grand Prix around the streets of Copenhagen emerged and if that ever comes to fruition which it hasn't so far ripple can say it got there first number eleven Daniel Ricardo's rugby scrum in 2016 ripple released a video of Daniel Ricciardo and an RBA going up against an eight-man scrum from Bath rugby a specially engineered scrum machine and a rugby player inspired flatnose for the RBA were created to facilitate the face-off with Red Bulls video even showcase in the intense heat from the car's engine and rear tires and the players bodies what counts against this video slightly is that it took place on private property at the team's swanky training facility but that did at least throw up the very cool image of Ricardo slide in the car past the wild rugby players across the gravel the first time we were properly introduced to the concept of a countrywide redbull road trip was when Coulthard explored Jordan in April 2016 ahead of a show run with Pierre gastly on the banks of the Dead Sea the desert run posed a major challenge for redbull as the intense heat took the engine temperature beyond a hundred degrees and the car was sucking up sand and dust and via the Amman Citadel to chariots and Roman soldiers in jerash a Salt City mosque to the al khazzani temple in Petra this had more than a touch of the spectacular to go with the logistical challenge and as Coulthard said at the time I'd say of all the journeys I've been on with the team this one has been the most epic while longer cross-country trips would be explored in later years Ripple's 2011 takeover of Austin before the return of the United States Grand Prix took in lots of locations around the Texas city and as each venue brought something different to the table leading up to a spectacular dirt track lack of an unpaved Circuit of the Americas this could be considered the first time a simple showroom were shunned in favor of more complex storytelling DC's dirt road escape from the ranch has him being chased by a car accord by horses and a helicopter and bonus points if you spot the failed attempt from one rider to lasso the car Red Bull likes to use older generation cars for Show runs because of the v8 engines durability but even this engine has its limits which were tested in the Canadian winter in temperatures of minus 10 Celsius Red Bulls biggest problem here was avoiding the axles freezing and locking so the priority was to keep the cars warm instead of call Sebastien Buemi was tasked with controlling the RB 5 on ice aided by specially produced tires with a run across a frozen lake and in a circuit that was mapped out loosely on the Montreal f1 track it's not unusual for Red Bulls to be able to briefly take over a major city but when that city is New York it's already a little different and when it involves clocking nearly 200 miles per hour in the Lincoln Tunnel you see why this is on the list and why place is quite highly one year after their dirt track exploits in Austin Red Bull and Coulthard return to America to promote the 2012 US GP and the f1 street track in New Jersey that was slated to be used the following year with a Liberty Island backdrop that drive through Liberty State Park a sample run through the New Jersey course that was never realized and the Lincoln Tunnel blast Red Bulls project was a massive undertaking with a significant police presence the 190 mile an hour will run through the tunnel is the star attraction but Coulthard cracking on through residential areas is not far behind in 2018 rebels f1 roadtrip concept evolved into an absolute monster San Francisco monument vally Las Vegas the Rocky Mountains in Miami Beach it was truly worthy of the roadtrip named the Lynx Red Bull went to for this were intense the desire for sunrise and sunset shots midday sometimes started at 4:00 a.m. and ran until midnight and in between there was still plenty of locations to hit to get the footage and operationally Red Bull sends a very small crew there were also specific challenges to deal with on the car side jacking up the ride height wasn't enough for the beach running as the course surface was like running on sandpaper and shredded the tires all in all this was a massive undertaking from Red Bull and put an f1 car in not just one unusual place but many it would feature further up this list but it gets docked a couple of places because although it's presented as Ricardo and Max for Stefan Patrick free soccer is doing the driving and we're a stickler for authenticity to title winning Red Bulls and months of work were required to realize four days of filming in which for stubborn and teammate Alex Alban traveled to Zandvoort via windmills shipping containers a greenhouse the netherlands seat of government and a beach temperatures with just over 0 degrees in january and it was so cold when they were filming the scenes in rotterdam port that one of the starter motors broke and then the backup packed it in as well so they had to craft a replacement quickly on site other parts of the roadtrip encapsulated a variety of the normal problems on these kind of events including overheating while running at low speed crowd control and checking roads for potholes and welding down manhole covers it had its own problems - such as filming the cars drifting for a live auction house and postponing the final day of filming by a month because of torrential rain it's the sheer quantity of tricky locations and the challenges that had to be overcome that put the ripples most recent exhibitions so high on our list it's been almost a decade since Neil Yanni and redbull tackled the Himalayas a feat we had forgotten about entirely before compiling this list offering a phenomenal view at around 18,000 feet the Cardinal our mountain paths quite literally took redbull and it's demonstration team to new heights redbull needed to take oxygen bottles as the crew battled altitude sickness and the reduced air intake for the engine down around 20% but the car was barely keeping alive but Yanni coped well despite the first snow of the season falling and a road that was so potholed that the final few kilometers had to be abandoned and completed on the back of the truck but given that happened at around 18,000 feet we'll let it slide and afford the Himalayan heroics a similarly high place in our rankings David Coulthard doing donuts on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab Hotel are probably what most people think of when they think of redbull putting an f1 car in crazy places named the seven star spin project the nauseatingly high feat claims the third step on a podium of bonkers ideas from redbull and the consequences had this stunt gone wrong is part of why tranq so highly rigorous tests had to be undertaken on the ground and on the helipad to test its surface for weight tolerance and grip and there was a concern that winds greater than 10 miles per hour would force redbull to cancel a run that it described as one of the scariest it has done everything about this shattered preconceptions about what an f1 promo could be the car was transported by helicopters of the damn thing was also airborne before reaching the almost 700 foot high helipad for Coulthard to do his donuts and when DC hammers the throttle it's a heart in mouth moment for those involved but also those of us that are simply watching the end product from the safety of sea level what do you do if you've conquered the art of the Formula one pitstop conducts one in zero gravity aided by the Russian space agency and at 33,000 feet onboard a cosmonaut training plane Ripple's mechanics and it's car experience weightlessness lasting around 22 seconds these are called parabolas where the plane climbs it's a 45-degree angle then Falls of 45 degrees as well one mechanic described the experience of dealing with this phenomenon as Bambi on ice and another head-butted the front wing with their helmet the exercise required around 80 parabola x' putting the personnel for an extremely physical challenge preparation included a Styrofoam mock-up set and a week's worth of flights and redbull pick the rb1 is 2005 car because it was smaller than its successors with around 22 seconds of zero gravity to play with film in each part was limited to 15 seconds to ensure the car and equipment could be rapidly secured before the period of weightlessness ended no wonder this challenge stands out as rebels most technically and logistically demanding the men in charge of running rebels cars on these projects admit they don't quite know how they pulled this one off and that combined with the sheer spectacle of an f1 car tackling a ski slope means a Kitts Bull Run lock down the number one slot very early on when we were putting together this list on day one the car only managed 20 feet out of the garage before sinking in the snow overnight some snow chains were made locally and redbull spent the next night modifying the car to fit them such as taking off the brake ducts and trimming the floor even once it became possible the prospect of a snap and attacking utterly unsuitable terrain for an f1 car was quite dicey Ripple's support team coordinator mark Willis said of the prospect the first time he had to drive off the edge of the mountain down the bottom of the ski slope I was hesitant about sending him it was very daunting watching him head over the edge hoping he was going to come back but come back the staffer did and in front of 3,500 spectators he committed to an Alpine run like no other the setting the conditions the surface the wow factor this one simply has or edging out the zero-gravity pit start with a slim victory based on how spectacular the end product was so that's our ranking of the craziest things rebels done with an f1 car let us know your favorite or any we've missed in the comments below and remember if you enjoyed our countdown please give the video a like and subscribe to our Channel you

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

thats fucking epic - i'd love to work for Red Bull

wonder what they'll do next!

[u/[deleted]]

RBR F1 is the only F1 team that does this regularly.

 

Respect.

[u/RadonPL]

Red Bull is ready for F1 LEO (Low Earth Orbit).

Season 2025 perhaps? ;)