Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo to drive Purple Bull F1 automobiles at Nordschleife in Germany

Racing legend Sebastian Vettel is about to return to the F1 monitor, with he and fellow Purple Bull nice Daniel Ricciardo to run demonstration laps on the iconic Nordschleife monitor in Germany.

Vettel, a four-time world champion, retired on the finish of final season after a storied 15-year profession on the grid, and can now be reunited with the well-known Purple Bull RB7 he nicknamed ‘Kinky Kylie’ when he hits the circuit on September 9.

Vettel and his former teammate will drive exhibition laps for Purple Bull of their former automobiles, which can run on carbon-neutral e-fuel; a trigger crucial for the German, who’s a staunch advocate for sustainability and defending the setting. 

‘The parable of the Nordschleife resonated, even when we ‘solely’ drove the GP monitor on the time. In any case, it will likely be nice enjoyable to drive my RB7 – fuelled with e-fuel – on the Nordschleife as a part of a present run,’ Vettel stated when his exhibition laps on the monitor often called the ‘Inexperienced Hell’ had been introduced.

‘Motorsport is my ardour. It is essential to me to indicate that racing automobiles can run simply as nicely and rapidly with artificial CO2-neutral gasoline. And that’s already at this time!’ 

Ex-Purple Bull teammates Sebastian Vettel (left) and Daniel Ricciardo (proper) will reunite to do demonstration laps in F1 automobiles on the well-known Nordschleife monitor in Germany

Vettel, a staunch advocate for sustainability and the setting, is happy that he’ll do the exhibition drive in a automobile run on carbon-neutral gasoline

Vettel (left) showers his then-teammate Ricciardo (proper) in champagne after the Aussie received the Canadian Grand Prix in 2014

Ricciardo, pictured on the annual Met Gala in New York earlier this 12 months, may also drive for Purple Bull on the well-known monitor on September 9 

Ricciardo, at the moment taking a niche 12 months of kinds because the take a look at driver for Purple Bull, confirmed he would even be doing an exhibition lap on the well-known monitor, which is a part of the broader Nuerburgring circuit final month. 

‘I simply obtained my invite to the Nuerburgring which is fairly cool. I’ll be driving a Purple Bull automobile across the well-known monitor, so I am very enthusiastic about that,’ he stated in a publish on the group’s social media. 

The exhibition laps are a part of an enormous weekend of racing for Purple Bull, with the Nurburgring 12 Hour race additionally going down. 

It has been a decade since a contemporary F1 automobile has pushed on the infamous Nordschleife circuit, which hosted grand prixs between 1951 and 1976. 

The top of F1 there got here after racing legend Niki Lauda’s horrifying and fiery crash on the circuit, that he solely simply survived.

Vettel retired in 2022 after a 15-year F1 profession that noticed him change into Purple Bull’s most profitable driver of all time

Germany’s well-known Nordschleife monitor is now used as a proving floor for the most recent supercars, just like the Mercedes-AMG Undertaking ONE (pictured on the circuit)

The good Michael Schumacher was the final to drive a contemporary automobile there in 2013, simply months earlier than his snowboarding accident, six years after Nick Heidfeld turned the primary driver to do lap in an F1 automobile on the monitor since Lauda’s notorious crash.

It is one of the vital well-known tracks on the planet, and is among the fiercest exams for any driver’s competence, with blind crests and gorgeous, tight twists and turns. There’s an elevation achieve/lack of 1000 toes per lap because it winds by way of the gorgeous German nation facet. 

The RB7 Vettel will drive within the exhibition laps is a automobile the German can have fond reminiscences of. 

In it he received the 2011 world championship after a season through which he received 11 grand prixs, and secured 18 of 19 poles. 

Well-known for giving his automobiles a feminine identify every season, Vettel named the RB7 he’ll drive in Germany on September 9 ‘Kinky Kylie’.

Vettel, pictured on the Monaco Grand Prix in 2011, races within the RB7 he known as ‘Kinky Kylie’, that many speculated was named after Kylie Minogue

Given he named it hours after profitable the Australian Grand Prix to open the season, hypothesis was rife within the media he named it after Kylie Minogue; although he has but to verify that truth.

However he clearly was a giant fan of the automobile. 

‘It has a decent butt, is supple, and is nice to take a look at,’ he stated in 2011, after telling reporters what he was naming his RB7.

Ricciardo will drive the RB8 Vettel nicknamed ‘Abbey’ – a far cry from the suggestive names he’d used for automobiles earlier in his profession, like Luscious Liz, Kate’s Soiled Sister, Hungry Heidi (named after German supermodel Heidi Klum) and Randy Mandy.