Sebastian Vettel will drive a FULL LAP of the Nurburgring in an F1 car

Sebastian Vettel retired from F1 at the end of last season, but far from putting his feet up the quadruple world champion has instead set his sights on the most fearsome race track on the planet. Yes!

Driving the RB7 with which he won his second title in 2011, Vettel’s run will be powered by e-fuels; just as he intends to do with his Goodwood FoS appearance in Nigel Mansell’s Williams FW14B next month.

The lap will form part of the Red Bull Formula Nurburgring festival on 9 September, which will be directly followed by the Nurburgring 12 Hours that same weekend.

And he won’t be alone either: sounds like Daniel Ricciardo will be taking a break from his F1 sabbatical to also do a lap in the RB8.

It’s the first time F1 machinery will have tackled the 12.9-mile (20.8-kilometer) Nordschleife since Michael Schumacher did a demo run in a Mercedes back in 2013.

Sadly, it doesn’t sound like Vettel or Ricciardo will be taking aim at the Nurburgring lap record, so the wait goes on to see if an F1 car could challenge the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo’s five-year-old benchmark of 5:19.546s.

Someone needs to get a petition going…