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Daniel Ricciardo may not be on the grid at Albert Park for the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, but that hasn't stopped him from driving a Formula 1 car around his home country.
The Australian returned to Red Bull as their reserve driver this season after parting ways with McLaren at the end of last year and was back in the cockpit in very unusual conditions.
The eight-time Grand Prix winner put a Red Bull RB7 - the car with which Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 world championship - to the ultimate test, by driving it across the outback in Queensland and New South Wales before ending on the famous Mount Panorama circuit.
The road trip begins with Ricciardo driving in the desert, before heading to a cattle station in the outback, where off-road driver Daniel Sanders delivers a quick tutorial on navigating the famous Aussie bull dust.
The trip even takes in a fully-manned pitstop in the outback city of Broken Hill courtesy, before the Aussie tests the car across the Sea Cliff Bridge on the coast of New South Wales.
Daniel Ricciardo took the Red Bull RB7 for a spin across the Aussie outback
The Formula 1 car was fitted with special tyres to cope with the rocky terrain
The Australian drove the Formula 1 car in the Queensland outback along with off-road driver Toby Price for an obstacle course race
'I’ve always wanted the opportunity to do
