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Watch a Red Bull Formula 1 Car Charge a Snowy Mountain

The Red Bull Racing Formula 1 Team for sure knows how to push the boundaries and make itself noticed. In a unique event, Formula 1’s wonder kid and Torro Rosso driver Max Verstappen took the title-winning RB7 F1 car down a specially designed course in the Austrian Alps.
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Not even things like high altitude, snow, ice or freezing temperatures stood in the way of the rising superstar and his specially equipped Formula 1 car.

The car was transported at over 1,600 meters altitude by helicopter and had some special features such as studded tires and slightly higher ride-height, to be able to conquer the Alps for the first time.

When the weather was suitable, the screaming naturally-aspirated 2.4-liter V8 unleashed its fury and covered the specially designed downhill section at the mountain station of the Hahnenkammbahn cable car.

Knowing that an F1 car is very hard to control even in perfect conditions due to its unique performances, you would think that the vehicle found the challenge rather difficult, but in fact, it handled it with ease. Now that snow is not an obstacle anymore, we’re wondering what’s next.

The RB7 Formula 1 car was designed by the Red Bull Racing team for the 2011 F1 season and was launched at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain. In the nineteen races of the 2011 season, the car only failed to finish in the top five twice, when Mark Webber crashed in Italy and when Sebastian Vettel retired in Abu Dhabi.

Vettel won the World Drivers’ Championship in 2011 with the RB7, and Red Bull claimed the World Constructors’ Championship one week later. The vehicle is one of the most dominant F1 cars ever built after winning 12 of the 19 races from the 2011 season. The four-time World Champion is known for naming his racing cars, so he called the RB7 Kinky Kylie.

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