60,000 motorsport fans lined Vienna’s Rathausplatz square to follow the first Formula 1 show run in the Austrian capital up close.
Daniel Ricciardo put the pedal to the metal in the world championship-winning car from 2012, converting the space between the Vienna Burgtheater and the Rathaus into a racing circuit ripe for burning rubber.
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