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MotoGP stars Dani Pedrosa and Marc Márquez aren’t the only superstars to experience a taste Formula One with Red Bull Racing. Here are some others who have…
Honda team-mates Marc Márquez and Dani Pedrosa took a break from two wheels at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria swapping their Repsol Honda RC213 bikes for the might of a V8-powered Red Bull Racing RB8 as used in the 2012 F1 campaign by Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel.
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We look back at some of the other big names of sport, and even Hollywood stars who've had the call from Red Bull Racing and given the rare opportunity to strap into a championship winning Formula One car.
Sébastien Ogier
In 2017 Sébastien Ogier swapped the rough and ragged roads of the WRC for the smooth tarmac of The Red Bull Ring in Austria.
He also swapped his car. Instead of his Ford Fiesta WRC machine, Ogier strapped into Red Bull Racing’s 2011 Formula One World Championship winning, 800bhp RB7, one of the most dominant cars in the history of Formula One
Ayrton Senna was Ogier’s childhood hero, and he described his 60 laps in a true F1 thoroughbred as “a dream come true.”
Felix Baumgartner
You'd think that after jumping from the edge of space as part of the record breaking Red Bull Stratos, supersonic skydiving jump, anything else would seem pretty pedestrian.
Back in 2013 Baumgartner joined up with four-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel and 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard at the Paul Ricard Circuit in the south of France for a taste of F1 speeds and G forces in Red Bull Racing’s seriously quick three-seater F1 car.
Baumgartner revealed he had been: "dreaming about this since he was a little kid" – and certainly wasn't disappointed by this unique experience.
Tom Cruise
When it comes to motorsport, Tom Cruise will forever be known as daredevil NASCAR driver Cole Trickle. But that was a fictional role in the 1990 movie Days of Thunder.
In 2011, the Hollywood superstar got a chance to indulge in his racing passion in a Red Bull Racing RB7 at the Willow Springs Racetrack in Southern California.
Cruise was taking a break from filming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and managed a top speed of 181mph (291kph) – just 4mph slower than instructor and 13-time grand prix-winner David Coulthard managed on the same day. Not too shabby.
Martin Tomczyk
In 2016, On the same day that Sébastien Ogier experienced his first taste of Formula One machinery at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, former DTM champion Martin Tomczyk was given the chance of a lifetime to have a blast in the 2011 Red Bull Racing RB7.
The German driver retired from the DTM at the end of 2016 and leapt at the chance to experience a championship winning F1 car, capping off his 15-year career in the DTM in style and at speed.
Sébastien Loeb
You probably aren’t surprised to learn that nine-time World Rally Championship title winner Sébastien Loeb has had a go in a Red Bull Racing F1 machine.
After all, the French rally ace has conquered the WRC, been a multiple winner in the World Touring Car Championship, starred in Global Rallycross, finished second at the Le Mans 24 Hours, blitzed Pikes Peak and survived the Dakar Rally.
Back in 2008 Leob was involved in Red Bull Racing’s winter test at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, testing the RB4. He completed over 80 laps and finished an impressive eighth-fastest out of the 17 runners.
Tony Cairoli
It wasn't just the stars of circuit-based motorbike racing that were getting their F1 kicks at the Red Bull Ring. One of the greatest motorcross riders of all time was given a few laps in the Torro Rosso liveried Red Bull Racing RB8.
On the global motorcross stage Cairoli is a nine-time Grand Prix motocross world champion and is well known to dabble with four wheels in the shape of rallying.
The motocross ace turned 20 laps in the 2012 RB8 and afterwards commented: "Only a few can do it and I'm glad there was a chance. The things that impressed me the most were the great technology of the vehicle, the acceleration, the power and the limitless braking."
