Max VERSTAPPEN on the LED showed the NUMBER 1 on the car for the first time

"For me, one is my favorite number and I will definitely use it on a race car," je Max Verstappen a month after winning the title, he told the Seventh Force when asked if he would be numbering 33 or 1 next season. Now he has made his public debut in the No. 1 race car on his nose.

Otherwise, it was another in a series Red Bullof these events, on which Formula 1 race cars are placed on the bases and locations where they would be last expected. This time she did Max Verstappen in the winter sports center Zell am See with a race car RB8 from the 2012 season, equipped with special Pirelli studded tires, drove along an icy track in the company of the Austrian speedway champion on ice, Franky Zorn.

“For the first time, I had the opportunity to be able to drive a Formula 1 car on ice. I have to say that it was very interesting, because it was extremely slippery, ”said the current world champion about his experience on the ice.. “You have to be very careful. Everything is very cold, including the brakes. Of course, race cars are not designed to ride on ice, which makes it even harder. But it was a lot of fun, ” he said Verstappen, who will be the first current world champion in the 2022 season to drive with a starting number of 1 after Sebastian Vettl in 2014.

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