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Red Bull on Rails, Vettel’s Title-Winning RB8 F1 Car Rides the Madrid Metro

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Oracle Red Bull Racing put Sebastian Vettel’s 2012 championship RB8 onto Madrid Metro rails this week and drove it through closed tunnels as if a subway line had suddenly become a racetrack. Heritage Team staff and Spanish engineering collective Andtonic did the work at Metro de Madrid’s Canillejas workshops, racing a two-week deadline to finish [...]
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Red Bull has made history by getting, for the first time, a single-seater of the Oracle Red Bull Racing team, piloted by the Austrian Patrick Friesacher, to circulate on the tracks of the Madrid Metro in what has been a great challenge in engineering, technical expertise and skill. Friesacher was in charge of driving by the rails of the Madrid Metro on RB8, the iconic single-seater equipped with a Renault RS27 V8 2.4 liter engine and about 750 H…

Oracle Red Bull Racing carried out a historic first by driving their F1 car, the RB8, on the tracks of the Madrid Metro. The event, which commemorated the return of the Spanish Grand Prix to Madrid for the first time in 45 years, was driven by former F1 driver Patrick Friesacher.

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The Red Bull Racing RB8 rode the Madrid metro rails as part of a special project in front of the Spanish Grand Prix, and a former Formula 1 pilot, Patrick Freezeker, drove the car.

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Life.ru broke the news on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.
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