Retired four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel is slated to reunite with the Purple Bull RB7 from his 2011 title-winning marketing campaign. The brand new yacht racing staff proprietor will likely be doing a present run on the Nürburgring Nordschleife as part of Purple Bull Components Nürburgring, a motorsport pageant being held as a gap act to the annual 12-hour race on the legendary monitor.
Should you weren’t an F1 fan again then and want a fast abstract, Sebastian Vettel grew to become a power of nature in 2011. Certain, he gained his first championship in 2010 after a four-way title combat that went right down to the wire on the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It was totally different in 2011. It wasn’t even shut. Vettel gained 11 out of the 19 races this season. Within the different eight races, he completed second 5 instances. Many claimed that the Adrian Newey-designed automotive gifted him that championship, however his teammate Mark Webber solely gained a single race and completed third within the factors standings. Once more, Vettel was a power of nature.
Vettel will likely be joined on the occasion by Daniel Ricciardo, who will likely be driving the Purple Bull RB8 from the 2012 season. Vettel’s RB7 will run on artificial gasoline in the course of the occasion as he has promised by no means to drive a conventionally-fueled race automotive once more. The exhibition would be the first time that F1 vehicles will circle the Nordschleife since 2013, when Michael Schumacher drove a Mercedes F1 automotive on the 12.9-mile circuit.
The present run will supply spectators on the monitor and followers worldwide the chance to glimpse again at Vettel’s peak a decade in the past briefly and to see a contemporary F1 automotive drive round a historic circuit that hasn’t hosted a Grand Prix since 1976.