Austrian Grand Prix: Red Bull aim to stay on track at teams big weekend
The return to the Osterreichring is special for Red Bull and Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel must build on their vastly improved performances in Montreal
At the foot of the Alps, in the verdant Styria region of Austria, with its hikers and bikers and cowbells, the old Osterreichring was once the prettiest graveyard in the world.
It was on this fast and dangerous circuit that the American Mark Donohue crashed and died in 1975, the most infamous of many accidents. It was not the racing cars that caught the eye on Friday, however, but a giant bull consisting of 1,200 pieces of rusted steel. It is 15 metres high, weighs 68 tonnes and its golden horns seven metres long glinted in the warm sunshine of Spielberg as it jumped through a vast ring.
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