Red Bull World of Racing: New show in Lucerne

SMALL, BUT FINE Since April 7, the Red Bull World of Racing has been on display at the Museum of Transport in Lucerne. On display are several Formula 1 bolides and drift cars, separately also two Le Mans winning cars from Porsche.

Peter Wyss - April 9, 2022

Neel Jani looks at one of the Red Bull F1s on display. As a former test driver, he knows them inside out.

The reopening of the Red Bull World of Racing at the Museum of Transport in Lucerne was attended by numerous guests and personalities from the world of racing on Thursday evening, April 7. First and foremost Neel Jani, who himself was a test driver for Scuderia Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing for many years.

Memory of the last Swiss GP rider
On the third floor of the Road Traffic Hall, there are several Formula 1 bolides from the past three decades on display. For example, those of Sebastian Vettel and Sébastien Buemi from Vaud, as well as a more modern RB Honda and Alpha Tauri.

The small exhibition also includes two BMWs of the famous Red Bull Driftbrothers.

Pit stop competition and racing simulator
The exhibition, entitled "The Road to Championship," also looks back at the most emotional moments of Max Verstappen's world championship title in a replica F1 pit.

There, visitors can also compete in a real F1 tire change in the Red Bull Pit Stop Challenge or do their laps in a racing simulator on the world's most famous racetracks. In the process, the Red Bull cockpit tilts when accelerating, braking and steering.

Le Mans history from the Porsche Museum
One floor below, there are two particularly valuable and successful sports cars from Porsche to admire that have only a very distant connection with the world of Red Bull. With the legendary Porsche 917 K (below left) and Dutchman Gijs van Lennep as his partner, Austrian Helmut Marko won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1971. Marko has long been well known as a motorsport advisor to the beverage company and as the mastermind behind its talent development program.

The Porsche 919 Hybrid next to it (bottom right) is the Le Mans-winning car from 2017. Neel Jani won the classic the year before with the same model. Both cars are on loan from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. The 917 K will then be one of the showpieces at Swiss Classic World at the Lucerne Exhibition Center at the end of May.