Red Bull using electric engine for pitstop practice

Red Bull was experimenting with an all-electric Formula One car at Spa on Wednesday, publications reveal.

Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport and Italy’s Autosprint say the reigning world champions’ electric prototype was in fact a 2013 Red Bull RB9 sporting a 2014 nose.

But the real novelty was its propulsion — an all-electric motor to power the car in and out of the pitlane ‘box’ as the mechanics practiced pit stops.

He added that among the fascinated observers in the Spa-Francorchamps pitlane on Wednesday was none other than FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer.

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