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Watch Sebastian Vettel And David Coulthard Run Championship-Winning F1 Cars On The Nürburgring

Screenshot: Red Bull Motorsports on YouTube
Screenshot: Red Bull Motorsports on YouTube

Grand Prix cars first raced on the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife the year it was inaugurated in 1927, and would continue to race there every year until 1976 (with notable exceptions for The Great Depression, a World War, and a demand for increased safety in 1955 following the tragedy at Le Mans). The German Grand Prix continued on at either the Grand Prix Strecke or the Hockenheimring until 2019 and there hasn’t been a German Grand Prix since. Despite turning out some of the most talented drivers of all time, Germany doesn’t get Formula One action much these days, so Red Bull set out to fix that with a little demo day.

Red Bull Formula Nürburgring was an event over the weekend bringing F1 back to the Germans. Featuring a pair of championship-winning chassis, Sebastian Vettel’s 2011 and 2012 cars, ‘Kinky Kylie’ and ‘Abbey’ respectively, Vettel himself would drive and former Red Bull race winner David Coulthard would sit in as well. Vettel wanted to run the event on pure synthetic fuels as part of his Race Without Trace initiatives.

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