Max Verstappen takes CRAZY SKI RUN – in his Formula 1 car!

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Why stick to the road when you can take your Formula 1 to the ski slopes?
Kitzbühel – the Monte Carlo of winter sport, as many call it – was turned into the setting of the first ever Formula 1 show run at an Alpine peak on Thursday!

In the build-up to the legendary Hahnenkamm ski races, Max Verstappen unleashed the power of a Red Bull Racing world-championship winning car.
Supported by 3,500 spectators, the Dutch driver provided a spectacular foretaste – amid splendid winter weather – of the 2016 Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich at over 1,600 metres altitude.
Austrian F1 legends Gerhard Berger and Helmut Marko didn’t want to miss out on the first time a racing car has taken to the snow at the Hahnenkamm.

2016 may only be a few days old, but F1 has already made its presence felt before the season starts. Max Verstappen put in an impressive performance in an F1 car amid an Alpine landscape in the build-up to the Hahnenkamm ski races at the legendary Streif ski run in Kitzbühel.
The awe-inspiring sound of the Red Bull Racing world-title winning car with snow whirling around several metres into the air at the back delighted the 3,500 people watching at the edge of the circuit marked by ski gates.

The Scuderia Toro Rosso driver told us at the Red Bull Energy Station on the Hahnenkamm how it felt to race the beast of a machine on a ski piste right in the middle of the Alps, saying: “It was really cool and was so much fun. Keeping the car on the track was a real challenge.”
On being asked how a Dutchman can drive so well on snow in the mountains of Austria, Max Verstappen smiled and said: “We are definitely better at ice skating. Marcel Hirscher’s mother is from Holland too, so I guess he got his skiing talent from her.”
Source: Red Bull Content Pool