Daniel Ricciardo was again behind the wheel of a Purple Bull Formulation 1 automotive in scenes that merely defy perception.
Within the lead as much as the Australian Grand Prix, Ricciardo jumped again into the seat of an RB7 and put the F1 automotive by means of its paces on terrain it’s by no means encountered earlier than.
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Removed from the lengthy and windy roads round Albert Park, the 33-year-old was blazing a mud path throughout the Australian outback.
In a video posted by Purple Bull titled Daniel Ricciardo’s Nice Aussie Highway Journey, the Perth native exhibits off his driving prowess.
Having turn out to be infamous for his or her wildish antics, Purple Bull delivered within the nine-minute lengthy video with some film like scenes being captured.
Ricciardo at one level tries to outmanoeuvre a helicopter buzzing narrowly overhead that’s making an attempt to herd him like cattle.
Becoming a member of the absurd antics within the video are fellow Purple Bull athletes Daniel Sanders, Matt Corridor, Toby Value and Shane van Gisbergen.
Corridor, an aerobatic pilot, flies over the F1 automotive because it crosses the Sea Cliff Bridge in Wollongong earlier than Ricciardo strikes on to Bondi Seaside.
Nevertheless it’s the sight of the Purple Bull flying round Australia’s most well-known observe that’s really a sight to behold.
The Formulation 1 automotive tears up the observe because it scorches round Mount Panorama following scorching on the heels of Supercars driver van Gisbergen.
“After my first Purple Bull Racing Highway Journey in San Francisco, I’ve all the time needed the chance to do that in Australia,” Ricciardo stated in a press launch.
“To be again house, taking the RB7 throughout the Aussie outback, and sharing the very best Australia has to supply with the world; what higher technique to rejoice my first F1 occasion at house since returning to Oracle Purple Bull Racing.”
Ricciardo returned to Purple Bull after being unceremoniously dumped by McLaren regardless of having a 12 months left on his contract.
Quite than safe a seat with a smaller staff and keep on the grid on the expense of his not-insignificant paycheck, He opted for a reserve function with Purple Bull, returning to the staff with whom he twice completed third within the World Championship and received seven Grands Prix.
Whereas he received’t be on the grid this weekend at Albert Park, he will likely be within the paddock as Purple Bull’s reserve driver.
“That is the primary 12 months in so long as I can do not forget that my objectives aren’t going to be 100% about racing and competing,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
“I’m again in an surroundings and finally a household that I’ve a variety of good reminiscences with, and it feels actually good to be again there.
“Nevertheless it’s not about me this 12 months, it’s concerning the wider staff and attempting to contribute and assist them the place I can.
“Leaping into the simulator, studying their automotive and serving to form the event are all issues I’m targeted on doing.
“In flip that can develop my talents, my confidence and my enjoyment behind the wheel.”
