{"id":446477,"date":"2026-01-30T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:12:09","slug":"will-brown-and-broc-feeney-in-an-f1-car-red-bull-ampol-racing-video-highlights-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446477\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Brown and Broc Feeney in an F1 car, Red Bull Ampol Racing, video, highlights, times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supercars drivers Will Brown and Broc Feeney were given a chance to test out a Formula 1 car at South Australia\u2019s The Bend Motorsport Park, with the duo clocking impressive times on the iconic track.<\/p>\n<p>The two Red Bull Ampol Racing drivers recorded five laps in the Red Bull RB7, used by Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber during the 2011 Formula 1 season, with former F1 drivers Scott Speed and Brendon Hartley featuring in the promotional video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought I\u2019d get this opportunity to be honest,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768365730_454_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kayo Sports is the home of Supercars | Watch every race of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship LIVE &amp; ad-break free during racing. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=supercars&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feeney went first, clocking a blistering time of 1.06.6 in the RB7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF*** me, it\u2019s small in here,\u201d he laughed while squeezing into the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Speed and Hartley were immensely impressed considering Feeney\u2019s lack of prior experience in the car, with the American exclaiming: \u201cThat looked pretty dang good!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is pretty f***ing cool,\u201d Feeney said while on a flying lap.<\/p>\n<p>Broc Feeney in the F1 car.Source: YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s attempt didn\u2019t go as smoothly, asking after he settled into seat: \u201cHow do I start it again? Where is the start button?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team technician responded: \u201cWe start it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown sheepishly replied: \u201cOh, that\u2019s easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old stalled before getting out of the pit lane, while he locked up at the first corner, much to Feeney\u2019s amusement.<\/p>\n<p>He ultimately posted a time of 1.07.9, marginally slower that his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed that,\u201d Feeney laughed after the times were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was unreal,\u201d he continued. \u201cMy neck is a little bit sore, but it was a lot of fun and so fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure for all of us in here, we dream of driving an F1 car one day, and I never thought that day would come true, so thanks to Red Bull for making that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019ll never forget for the rest of my life \u2026 it certainly put a smile on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For context, the fastest official lap on The Bend\u2019s West Circuit was 1:10.085, achieved by Josh Kean in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The RB7 was in Australia for demonstration runs during last November\u2019s Adelaide Supercars finale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/supercars\/supercars-first-grand-final-had-a-grubby-unjust-ending-which-means-it-was-perfect-talking-pts\/news-story\/f8df0753777b80c53e9ba21b1d8005fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">where Feeney dramatically lost the championship in the last race of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown and Feeney will debut their new Ford Mustang Supercars next weekend in Geelong ahead of next month\u2019s Supercars season opener at the Dunlop Sydney 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars drivers Will Brown and Broc Feeney were given a chance to test out a Formula 1 car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-446477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}