Which is faster around a makeshift circuit; a 661 hp mid-engine Italian supercar, or an ambulance? The answer depends on who’s driving.
Shell’s latest promotional video features F1 world Champion Sebastian Vettel competing on a race track against a paramedic. But to level things out, Vettel swapped seats for the ambulance, while Alex Knapton (the paramedic) was assigned at the wheel of the prancing horse.
The paramedic wouldn’t have stood a chance if not for the swap, especially pitted against a professional racing driver. Sebastian Vettel, on the other hand, proved that the car isn’t everything when it comes to racing.
Despite weighing three tons, and being powered by an 118 hp engine, Vettel took the ambulance around the circuit in two minutes and ten seconds – seven seconds faster than Knapton in the Ferrari. Now we’ve seen it all, an ambulance has beaten a Ferrari.
The reason for this “experiment” was for Shell to point out that its V-Power race fuel, supplied to the Scuderia, contains at least 99% of the same compounds used for its road fuel. But don’t get too excited, because you’ll probably still be slower than Sebastian Vettel in an ambulance.