Sergio “Checo” Perez lit up the streets of the Spanish capital for a Red Bull Showrun on Saturday evening. At the wheel of each the RB7 and RB8, Checo took the metropolis by storm as the iconic sound of the V8 engine reverberated round a number of of Madrid’s historic landmarks. In his fifth present run for Oracle Red Bull Racing, the Mexican pulled out the doughnuts in entrance of the well-known Cibeles Fountain as over 85,000 followers watched on in a celebration of Red Bull motorsport.
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Oracle Red Bull Racing proceed to convey Formula One to new audiences, and this was no exception, as the Team ran two of Sebastian Vettel’s Championship-winning automobiles in a brand new metropolis for F1. And in true Red Bull fashion, the present run started with a spectacular aspect act that includes Red Bull athlete paraglider Horacio Llorens, who descended along with his parachute to land in the centre of Cibeles sq. and hand over Checo’s steering wheel to him!
Madrid is the fifth metropolis by which the Team and Checo have hooked as much as run the streets in a Red Bull Showrun. In 2021 he burnt rubber in the streets of Mexico City and, recent from profitable the Constructors’ title final season with the Team, Checo stopped site visitors in his hometown of Guadalajara. He’s additionally taken to the tarmac of Oracle Red Bull Racing’s residence metropolis, Milton Keynes and Dallas, Texas.
Sergio “Checo” Perez commented:
“It was amazing to see the crowd here today and how passionate the people of Madrid are about Oracle Red Bull Racing and Formula One. People are super happy to see us. We are the only team who can make events like this possible, and only Red Bull can shut down the busiest streets of Spain’s capital city on a Saturday night! Not many people know, but Madrid is a second home to me. The vibe here is very unique and special; although I am not at home, I really feel like I am here. This was such a fun evening, and now I am looking forward to being back behind the wheel of the RB19 to get my season back on track, I want to get back to winning and scoring as many points as possible before the summer break, we have some important races coming up.”
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The present run was preceded by a sequence of activations in Madrid geared toward bringing Oracle Red Bull Racing and F1 nearer to Spanish followers. Among these was a tour of the RB7 by means of the capital’s roads, stopping in a number of places and permitting followers the distinctive alternative to see the World Championship-winning automobile up shut.
Alongside Oracle Red Bull Racing and Checo, followers had the alternative to get pleasure from an exhibition from Elias Hountondji, a member of the Red Bull Driftbrothers, and Cristina Gutiérrez, the 2021 World Rally Cross Raids champion and the first lady to realize a victory in the Dakar Rally since Jutta Kleinschmidt.
