{"id":158925,"date":"2025-06-05T01:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158925\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:06:15","slug":"leeds-stars-race-red-bull-f1-car-at-elland-road-after-challenging-driver-to-contest-amid-premier-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158925\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds stars race Red Bull F1 car at Elland Road after challenging driver to contest amid Premier League return"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Red Bull are minority owners of Leeds and took a car to the Elland Road turf<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Three Leeds stars raced it on the pitch, with the car struggling for grip<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The Whites are preparing for their return to the Premier League next season\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1101\/lewis-browning.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEWIS BROWNING<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  13:21 EDT, 4 June 2025   |  Updated:  13:59 EDT, 4 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Three <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/leeds-united\/index.html\" id=\"mol-097cd150-4166-11f0-b009-5346a47b1adb\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> players <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKel1SCoPoj\">raced a Red Bull Formula One car<\/a> after challenging the driver to a battle at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The club are still riding the credit of a wave after securing promotion back to the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/premierleague\/index.html\" id=\"mol-098583e0-4166-11f0-b009-5346a47b1adb\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> after two years away, winning the Championship on goal difference ahead of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/burnley\/index.html\" id=\"mol-097b23a0-4166-11f0-b009-5346a47b1adb\" rel=\"noopener\">Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/daniel-farke\/index.html\" id=\"mol-097fde90-4166-11f0-b009-5346a47b1adb\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Farke<\/a>&#8216;s side reached 100 points to secure a return to the top flight, and their celebrations continued in rather bizarre fashion &#8211; with three of the club&#8217;s players racing one of the fastest cars on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Willy Gnonto, Largie Ramazani and Isaac Schmidt raced the car, driven by Formula Two driver\u00a0Arvid Lindblad in a drag race from one penalty box to another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After a slow start from the car as it struggled to pick up grip, it eventually prevailed in a race that included the vehicle turning 180 degrees and winning by around 30 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It proved, if there was any doubt, that a racing car is indeed faster than some of the quickest players, but provided some light entertainment from the club and its minority owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8cf0203c96d2774f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99046643-0-image-a-43_1749056488649.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Three Leeds United players raced a Red Bull Formula One car on the Elland Road turf\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Three Leeds United players raced a Red Bull Formula One car on the Elland Road turf<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3d8ea02cc6d66596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99046637-0-image-a-44_1749056490539.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Willy Gnonto, Largie Ramazani and Isaac Schmidt raced the car, driven by Formula Two driver Arvid Lindblad\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Willy Gnonto, Largie Ramazani and Isaac Schmidt raced the car, driven by Formula Two driver Arvid Lindblad<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-55ea84e7bef7d747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99046645-0-image-a-45_1749056492627.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The car had struggled for grip but eventually won - Red Bull are minority owners of Leeds\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The car had struggled for grip but eventually won &#8211; Red Bull are minority owners of Leeds<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Commenting on the race, Leeds&#8217; Ramazani said: &#8216;This was a great experience, I wish we could do this every day with Red Bull. The only thing better would be getting in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I love Formula One. I went to the Monaco Grand Prix last week, which was a bucket list moment for me. I used to play Formula One games on the console when I was younger, so it was surreal to be next to a real car and race against it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Before the race I was scared, but I was confident too. I think we did great, but in the end the car was just too quick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I think one of the players involved in this idea was Dan James. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s been injured, but I&#8217;d back my team-mate over that car any day. DJ would smoke this car.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lindblad said: &#8216;Ahead of the race I was a bit nervous. I&#8217;d never driven on grass and had no idea how it would go \u2013 only Red Bull would make something like this happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The car has a ton of horsepower and there is not much grip on grass, so I wasn&#8217;t sure if I could go full throttle and turn the car properly. It was great fun to challenge my skills and compete against footballers rather than other drivers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Leeds stars race Red Bull F1 car at Elland Road after challenging driver to contest amid Premier League return<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull are minority owners of Leeds and took a car to the Elland Road turf Three Leeds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,9029,92,393,94,4884,1860,2922,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-burnley","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-leeds-united","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114628079547407453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}