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The longest-serving Red Bull driver revealing F1’s true brutality
His day of days in Formula 1 came at Indianapolis in 2005, a day grand prix racing strives to forget. But Patrick Friesacher, the long-serving Red Bull lieutenant, remains active today driving a two-seater that provides ordinary people with a glimpse of an F1 car’s savage potential, including this writer...
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His face is obscured behind his helmet, but the tone of his voice suggests that the Red Bull driver is grinning from ear to ear.
“How was it?” asks 11-time grand prix starter Patrick Friesacher.
“Wow,” is about all I can muster. “Thanks so much.”
As I extricate myself, slowly, from the two-seater Formula 1 car in which I’ve been whisked around the counter-clockwise Eurospeedway Lausitzring for one fast out-and-inlap, I try to take stock of the whirlwind of events.
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