- Red Bull’s “F1 Drivers Race 100 Years of Cars” is now streaming on Red Bull’s YouTube channel.
- Max Verstappen and Arvid Lindblad compete in head-to-head lap challenges.
- The Ford lineup spans 1924 Model T, 1970 Boss 302, 1966 GT40, Fiesta WRC and 2025 Mustang GT3.
Red Bull has a habit of dreaming up challenges that feel half brilliant, half bonkers. Its latest effort sits firmly in that sweet spot, lining up more than 100 years of Ford performance and letting two Formula One drivers loose without much in the way of safety nets.
The result is F1 Drivers Race 100 Years of Cars, now live on Red Bull’s YouTube channel, starring four-time world champion Max Verstappen and rising star Arvid Lindblad.
Old iron, new tricks
The concept is simple enough: pit cars from wildly different eras against each other in a series of acceleration and handling challenges. The execution, naturally, is anything but calm.
Verstappen, representing Oracle Red Bull Racing, leaned into modern firepower early. He tackled straight-line acceleration in the Ford Fiesta WRC before stepping into the all-electric F-150 Lightning SuperTruck.
The verdict after the latter was typically blunt. “It’s so fast,” Verstappen said. “Proper acceleration.”
Lindblad, now signed to Visa Cash App Racing Bulls for the 2026 season, went the opposite direction. Instead of tech-heavy machinery, he chose character—muscling around a 1970 Boss 302 and quickly discovering that old-school horsepower demands respect rather than forgiveness.
When the Model T fights back
Just when things looked grim, Lindblad was thrown a true wildcard: a 1924 Ford Model T. Wood wheels, three pedals, and none of the driver aids we now take for granted. His task was deceptively cruel, complete the handling circuit in under three minutes. It was less about speed and more about survival, with every input magnified by the car’s century-old engineering .
The handling challenge swung the spotlight back to Verstappen, who opted for the latest Mustang Dark Horse SC, slicing through corners with modern precision. Lindblad countered in one of Ford’s most storied machines, the 1966 GT40: a Le Mans legend separated from the Mustang by six decades of progress.
Flat-out finale
The final showdown dispensed with nuance altogether. Two drivers. Two laps. Fastest time wins. Verstappen climbed into a snarling V8 Supercar, while Lindblad took the wheel of a 2025 Mustang GT3. No strategy, no points, just speed and bravado across generations of Ford performance.
It’s not a scientific comparison and doesn’t pretend to be. Instead, the film celebrates how far performance cars have come, and how much courage it still takes to drive the old stuff properly. One champion, one rookie, and a rolling timeline of Ford history, all driven as hard as Red Bull could manage.
