Red Bull and Toro Rosso go Hollywood-style

Unless you have been living on Mars for the past month, you cannot fail to have noticed that Oscar fever is gripping the media. But no one seems to have caught onto the fact that Red Bull has produced its own Action Movie Blockbuster, featuring the Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing drivers. We don’t want to give the plot away, but let’s just say the storyline involves a scrap between the “gentlemen” in the very British Red Bull Racing team and the fearsome “gladiators” of the Italian Scuderia Toro Rosso squad.

For this epic production, David Coulthard and Mark Webber were sent off to the Czech Republic, which in true Hollywood style was supposed to look like Scotland, while Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed found themselves in Sofia, Bulgaria, because where else would you go if you want to find a version of the Colliseum. This is the second year that Red Bull has produced a pre-season film, known within the company as “The Mood Film,” possibly because our accountants get in a bad mood when they see the budget!

The film will be distributed to TV companies in Melbourne, at the time of the Australian Grand Prix in mid-March, and those of you who attend the Formula One Grands Prix can see it during the season, playing in our Energy Station. In the meantime, you can get a glimpse of the fun and games of filming, by looking at our photo website.