Red Bull
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It takes a special kind of crazy to think that piloting a giant balloon to a height of 128,100 feet, opening the door of your capsule and jumping into space sounds like a good idea, but Felix Baumgartner is that kind of crazy. On Sunday, the Austrian skydiver and helicopter pilot broke several records as part of the Red Bull Stratos mission. He traveled higher than any other human being ever had in a balloon, jumped from a greater height than had ever been realized and became the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall. While the data is still being finalized and certified, it looks...
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Loeb Wins Ninth WRC Title, Red Bull To Promote Sport From 2013Frenchman Sébastien Loeb together with the aid of his co-driver Daniel Elena has won his ninth and final World Rally Championship title on Sunday, and in the process earned Citroen its eighth Constructors’ title. Competing in this weekend’s Rallye de France, Loeb was easily able...
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MINI Wants To Put You On Ice
If you're a fan of winter extreme sports, MINI has the contest you've been waiting for. It's giving away two tickets, plus transportation and accommodations, to the opening event of the Crashed Ice World Championship.
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Race Car Tech: Improving The Breed, Or Ruining The Racing?
Carmakers love motor racing. The phrase "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" didn't come about for no reason - racing is a great way of raising the profile of your cars and the buying public love knowing that some of the technology in their cars has filtered down from the race track. That's the theory...
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Formula 1 Car Crashes Into Crazed Fan At Red Bull Event: Video
A crazed fan attempting to jump over a moving Formula 1 car at a Red Bull sponsored exhibition event in Japan this weekend was captured on video spectacularly failing to complete his dangerous leap. Driving the F1 race car was Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Buemi who luckily was only doing...
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Video: Gran Turismo 5 Red Bull Power Trailer
Gran Turismo 5’s release date has been pushed back a number of times already but we have word that the discs for the popular racing sim are being pressed as you read this and its final release is only a few weeks away. In the lead up to its arrival the guys at Polyphony Digital, the...
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Formula One is often touted as the pinnacle of what is possible in racing and performance car technology, but that's only true within the constraints of the FIA's regulations. If there were no regulations limiting performance, nothing to keep engineers from putting together the ultimate car for navigating a circuit, the Red Bull X1 prototype is one example of what they'd come up with. It's only real in the virtual world, however, and it's perhaps so fast that it taxes even the world's most capable drivers to rise to its capabilities. Sebastian Vettel, in the video, actually says "it was going...
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Red Bull X1 Prototype Ready For Gran Turismo 5 Debut
Earlier this year Japanese electronics giant Sony announced a unique partnership between Gran Turismo and Red Bull Racing to create a virtual car that would push the boundaries of motorsports. This in turn prompted the guys at Polyphony Digital, the company behind the legendary Gran Turismo series...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran
