Sergio “Checo” Perez lit up the streets of the Spanish capital for a Purple Bull Showrun on Saturday evening. On the wheel of each the RB7 and RB8, Checo took the town by storm as the enduring sound of the V8 engine reverberated round a number of of Madrid’s historic landmarks. In his fifth present run for Oracle Purple Bull Racing, the Mexican pulled out the doughnuts in entrance of the well-known Cibeles Fountain as over 85,000 followers watched on in a celebration of Purple Bull motorsport.
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Oracle Purple Bull Racing proceed to convey Method One to new audiences, and this was no exception, because the Workforce ran two of Sebastian Vettel’s Championship-winning automobiles in a brand new metropolis for F1. And in true Purple Bull model, the present run started with a spectacular aspect act that includes Purple Bull athlete paraglider Horacio Llorens, who descended along with his parachute to land within the centre of Cibeles sq. and hand over Checo’s steering wheel to him!
Madrid is the fifth metropolis by which the Workforce and Checo have hooked as much as run the streets in a Purple Bull Showrun. In 2021 he burnt rubber within the streets of Mexico Metropolis and, recent from successful the Constructors’ title final season with the Workforce, Checo stopped site visitors in his hometown of Guadalajara. He’s additionally taken to the tarmac of Oracle Purple Bull Racing’s dwelling metropolis, Milton Keynes and Dallas, Texas.
Sergio “Checo” Perez commented:
“It was wonderful to see the group right here at present and the way passionate the individuals of Madrid are about Oracle Purple Bull Racing and Method One. Persons are tremendous comfortable to see us. We’re the one crew who could make occasions like this doable, and solely Purple Bull can shut down the busiest streets of Spain’s capital metropolis on a Saturday evening! Not many individuals know, however Madrid is a second dwelling to me. The vibe right here could be very distinctive and particular; though I’m not at dwelling, I actually really feel like I’m right here. This was such a enjoyable night, and now I’m wanting ahead to being again behind the wheel of the RB19 to get my season again on monitor, I need to get again to successful and scoring as many factors as doable earlier than the summer time break, now we have some essential races developing.”
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The present run was preceded by a sequence of activations in Madrid aimed toward bringing Oracle Purple Bull Racing and F1 nearer to Spanish followers. Amongst these was a tour of the RB7 by means of the capital’s roads, stopping in a number of places and permitting followers the distinctive alternative to see the World Championship-winning automobile up shut.
Alongside Oracle Purple Bull Racing and Checo, followers had the chance to get pleasure from an exhibition from Elias Hountondji, a member of the Purple Bull Driftbrothers, and Cristina Gutiérrez, the 2021 World Rally Cross Raids champion and the primary lady to attain a victory within the Dakar Rally since Jutta Kleinschmidt.
