Red Bull Ring welcomes Big Open Single Seaters

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BOSS GP´s Big Open Single Seaters had little time to enjoy the great motor racing spectacle at the wonderful Masters of F3 weekend in Zandvoort, as they will now turn their attention to the BOSS GP racing weekend in Austria. The newly renovated Red Bull Ring will welcome the roaring engines on 27/28 August.

Originally built in 1969, the track in Spielberg, has been renovated and renamed as the Red Bull Ring. The race circuit was founded as Österreichring, with a track length of nearly six kilometres, It was later shortened and renamed the A1 Ring. The track was then bought by Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz, closed and demolished. The Red Bull Ring, with a track length of 4326 metres, was reopened in 2011.

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Niki Lauda
The high-speed circuit hosted the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix for eighteen consecutive years, with national racing legend Niki Lauda in the spotlight, but the track was abandoned by Formula One for nearly a decade when an accident took place in 1987.



Shortened and made safer
The Formula One circus returned to the circuit ten years later. The well-known circuit designer Hermann Tilke completely rebuilt the track, shortening its length by over one-and-a-half kilometers and using new contraction trends to enhance the safety of the race participants. The new circuit was named A1 after the main sponsor A1, a cell phone provider. It hosted the Grand Prix from 1997 to 2003.



Schumacher and Barrichello
The Red Bull Ring was dropped from the Formula One calendar in 2003 due to huge financial losses. The Red Bull Ring will be associated with a notorious incident that took place in 2002. Ferrari duo Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher dominated the F1. Barrichello was on his way to win the race but was controversially asked to give way for Schumacher.
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