Get ready racing fans! The noise and excitement of Formula One particular will return to Austria later this month for the 1st time in a lot more than a decade.
The Austrian Grand Prix will take place from June 20-22 at the Red Bull Ring, on the very same track as it was final held in 2003. And the race appears set to be a tense 1, thanks to Daniel Ricciardo’s surprise victory in Canada final weekend.
He drives for Austrian-owned drinks manufacturer Red Bull, which has an F1 team based in Milton Keynes, and is behind the revival of the race in its 40th anniversary year.
The previous
The Austrian Grand Prix was initial held in 1964. Nevertheless, it has not been portion of the F1 calendar considering that 2003.
The race’s chequered past also consists of a 10-year gap amongst 1987 and 1997, as well as a 6-year hiatus following the 1st race in the 1960s, which was won by Italian Lorenzo Bandini in a Ferrari but was deemed as well harmful due to the narrow, bumpy airfield track.
Its initial return to the F1 circuit came in 1970, by which time a new track had been constructed: the Osterreichring in the scenic Styrian mountain variety.
It was beloved of drivers due to its length and quickly, flowing nature, and was chosen to host the European Grand Prix – an honorary, annual designation provided to one particular European race at the time – in 1975.
Even so, this track also was judged also harmful after the 1987 race had to be restarted twice due to accidents on the narrow pit straight and the race was cancelled once once more.
The next revival came in 1997, when the race was run on a refurbished Osterreichring, now identified as the A1-Ring.
But this phase in the Grand Prix’s history also came to an finish in 2003, after Ferrari brought controversy to the 2002 race by instructing Rubens Barrichello to cede victory to teammate Michael Schumacher.
The present
Red Bull driver Ricciardo certainly looks on fine kind after clinching the team’s first win of the season in Canada on Sunday, and self-assurance in the property camp is operating higher.
“We’ve taken 40 points today – it is the initial time we’ve outscored Mercedes – and that is excellent news in view of Red Bull’s property race the Austrian Grand Prix in 2 weeks,” Red Bull’s Christian Horner stated.
There was no want for this achievement to guarantee the reputation of the race, though. Tickets to the first Austrian Grand Prix in 11 years had sold out lengthy before Red Bull halted Mercedes’ run of 6 consecutive victories for Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
Jenson Button, who raced in Austria at the starting of his F1 profession, is amongst those looking forward to the event: “It’s one of those races where they really embrace the sort of celebration scene and the camping scene, which is truly cool,” he stated. “It’s a accurate racing fan’s Grand Prix.”
Austria gears up for F1 weekend
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