The summer break video series was first introduced in the 2018 shutdown period where it attracted millions of viewers across the team's social media platforms. Another video series in a similar style was released in between the 2018 and 2019 season around New Year's. All of the videos are a humorous answer to the question: What does the team do when we can't go racing?
This year's video series was shot in and around Vienna in the week leading up to the race in Spielberg. Austria was experiencing a heat wave during that time which brought some very specific challenges for the roughly 30 members of the crew.
While the other locations didn't attract quite as big an audience, they were still affected by the heat. The locations for the two indoor scenes, set at a laundromat and a hair dresser, reached temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius, making the shoot physically challenging for both the production crew and the actors - especially for those wearing race suits and helmets. It wasn't just our cars that suffered in the Austrian heat that week...