{"id":498279,"date":"2026-02-23T06:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498279\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T06:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:13:20","slug":"f1-car-catches-fire-on-yuki-tsunodas-red-bull-return-during-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498279\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 car catches fire on Yuki Tsunoda\u2019s Red Bull return during demo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of Red Bull’s iconic RB7 cars engulfed in flames during an F1 demonstration in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Tsunoda performed a series of burnouts before flames began to lick from the engine cover.<\/p>\n

It was an expensive day for Red Bull on the whole. During the same demonstration, Scott Speed crashed the other RB7.<\/p>\n

Speed performed a flick spin before the car went nose-first into a plastic barrier and broke the front wing.<\/p>\n

The cars are believed to be the same ones used at last year\u2019s Adelaide Grand Final and later by Broc Feeney and Will Brown during a test at The Bend.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Red Bull Showrun San Francisco Presented By Ford took place on Marina Blvd in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

More than 40,000 people attended the event, which featured a series of cars from Ford, including its Dakar Raptor, a Mustang GT3, the F-150 Lightning Super Truck,<\/p>\n

Tsunoda has taken on a reserve driver role with Red Bull this year after being dropped by the team.<\/p>\n

He was replaced by Isack Hadjar, who stepped up from the sister Racing Bulls team.<\/p>\n

Though there was some speculation that Tsunoda may end up at Racing Bulls, that vacancy was ultimately filled by Arvid Lindblad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


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