Tom Cruise spent seven hours at the Willow Springs racetrack testing the Red Bull © Red Bull Media House
Actor and producer Tom Cruise has tested a Red Bull at the Willow Springs racetrack in California.
Cruise completed 24 laps during a full day with the Red Bull team, which included former driver David Coulthard as instructor. The test was carried out prior to Coulthard undertaking a run in the Red Bull show car at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas last week.
After Coulthard had taken Cruise around the circuit in a passenger car, he set his own lap in the F1 car reaching a top speed of 185mph. By the end of the day, having reviewed telemetry throughout the test, Cruise had improved his best time by 11 seconds and recorded a top speed just 4mph off Coulthard's best, an effort which impressed the BBC commentator.
"Tom's the real deal," Coulthard told RedBull.com. "I was surprised that he picked it up so quickly and is such an accomplished driver. His recall was incredible considering how complicated driving an F1 car is. He's a guy who really pushes the envelope in real life. This day was not green screened. He thoroughly impressed me."
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Is Tom Cuise contemplating a new movie about Formula 1? Pretty impressive for a celebrity-driving one of the fastest cars in the world four tenths a lap slower than the pros...
Posted byI'm glad to see this. We know the guy has petro-head chops after what he did in Days of Thunder and on a motorcycle in MI 2. I wondered if he was going to pick up driving again, since he seems to be into jets and planes lately. He is the real deal as Coulthard says - just look at the stunts he does. But I think he has the head for it, too and I would like to see him in an actual event. Maybe that's what he's got in mind.
Posted bySeeing how fast he got the reasonably priced car round the Top Gear track, I am not surprised
Posted byRedBull could change Tom for Vettel and see if so can win the championship easily Fernando, haha! We'll see if I win the 2 tickets to go to the Yas Marina circuit this year, because I do not think Red Bull invite me ...
Posted byabsolut cool, tom cruise as f1 car driver and the top is david coulthard is the instructor, really best
Posted byI wonder how much he paid to test their car, sheesh. Donate that money towards the starving needy people in Africa.
Posted byThis one's for you Harry!
Posted byI wondered if he was jumping up and down on the couch when he found out he was going to drive an F1 car... now that's something worth jumping on a couch for!!!
Posted bymaybe he should get hired then :D