Monday, June 7, 2010

A Taste Of F1 for the Netherlands

Sebastian took time out yesterday to support up and coming drivers at a karting challenge in the Netherlands.

Red Bull had searched the country for 26 racing talents to take part in the Kart Final Fight at the GP Masters of Formula 3 event at the Circuit Park Zandvoort and our man was there to pass on advice and hand over trophies to the winners: Mark Megens (14) and Sander van Os (26)

After the races and the prize-giving Vettel took the Red Bull Running Showcar down the start-finish straight to demonstrate some straight-line speed, donuts and burn-outs.

As well as the drivers attending former Dutch footaball star Edgar Davids was on hand. Possibly to ask Seb the best way to take a corner…

Seb's diary, Zandvoort


Today I stopped by at the Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort (Holland).

Early in the morning I had a briefing with the kart winners from a karting championship that had been going for weeks, with the final to take place today. The kids were aged 15 or under 15, that was very funny because the questions were sometimes quite different from the ones I get asked over and over otherwise.

Then I watched the final kart race of the children, in which two children were honored in two different classes. I could give them their trophy on the podium and then we celebrated the victory with a kind of sparkling water ...

I immediately reminded of my karting times, but I had not been to the podium in the Formula Masters...

After we went to the podium press conference at which I sat between the two winners and we were asked questions.

After the Formula 3 race where I distributed the trophies, I could finally check out the track in a show car. After a few laps I took my leave with some burn outs. It was really fun. Now we go to Montreal.

Sources: Red Bull, sebastianvettel.de

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