Name: F1 Making Of: Red Bull RB7 Flat Out in New Jersey - /SHAKEDOWN
Uploaded: 2013-09-03T15:14:28.000Z
Duration: 14 min 51 s
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LEO PARENTE: That was a Red Bull RB7 2011

championship-winning Formula One car challenging the

normalcy of midday traffic on the city streets of Weehawken

In late 2011, word got out that New York City and New

All the way back to 1983, there were pronouncements of

So when Leo Hindery, a very politically-wired New York

business guy and racing aficionado, announced he had a

deal, I still said to myself, yeah, we've

Infiniti and Red Bull invite us to the official New Jersey

Grand Prix press conference in Weehawken, across the river

from my New York City, to announce the F1 race and to

show us the construction of the pit garages.

We came to get interviews and video all the action.

David Coulthard and Sebastian Vettel were on hand giving

ride-alongs in their Infiniti G37 IPL performance cars.

New Jersey state and city officials were on hand.

The cops were there acting like everything was under

control until we jumped into the Infiniti with Coulthard

And that's when it became apparent New Jersey was not up

As we cut through traffic, jumped red lights behind the

One officer had to swerve to avoid T-Bone

We can't show you the video because, mysteriously, all the

The one piece of footage that we did sneak out of New Jersey

LEO PARENTE: But all that gets us to today and our latest

12 hours ago, Mike Spinelli gets an email about something

Red Bull happening in Weehawken the next day.

Show up at a certain New Jersey fire station at 10:00

J.F., who lives in New Jersey, remembers hearing about the

We're real journalists figuring out a story.

So a 10-minute, New York City to Weehawken ferry ride later,

we arrive at said firehouse location to find two RB7 Red

Bull GP cars, a race crew of 10 people, Renault engine

techies, and 30 Red Bull Media House videographers.

Red Bull the racing team was serious stuff.

So doing my thing, I started chatting up the crew guy that

He was Tony Burrows, the head of the team

Burrows and the labs are the support team

I'll let him explain exactly what that means.

TONY BURROWS: OK, this is a support team.

Our primary function is to support the racing.

So what we do most of the year round is we either travel to

races to support them or we go and do development tests in

aero-testing in Spain, is our main function.

As you know, Adrian likes his aerodynamics.

And we're always trying to improve the car and trying to

find them few tenths to get the jump on people.

With the restriction in testing that they have now, we

find ourselves with a bit more time on our hands.

So what we do is we take one of our championship-winning

cars around the world, running it up and down highways and

main roads, and just try and bring some awareness of

We have the Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber's cars.

We always bring two, because you've got to take enough

spares, so you might as well build it up into a car.

We arrived last week, just before the weekend.

Our first run we did was on Monday where we went to

And we drove up Freedom Road and along the boardwalk, and

got some spectacular shots of the Manhattan skyline in the