VIDEO: Red Bull Racing F1 drivers meet the durian

It’s Friday, so let’s welcome the weekend with some light-hearted comedy involving Red Bull Racing Formula One team drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, together with the well-known durian.

The F1 circus has arrived in Singapore for this weekend’s Grand Prix, and Red Bull Racing thought it would be a good idea to introduce both its drivers to the local delicacy via ‘The Durian Fruit Challenge’.

Questions like “why is it so spiky?” and “what is it?” are pretty common for first-timers, but the real challenge is how you open one up. Easy for us because we’re masters with the king of fruits, not so much for the Australian and Dutch nationals.

After exhausting a number of options (and tools) to get it open, the best part is watching them taste the fruit itself. There’s no two ways about it, you either love the durian or you don’t, so guess what the outcome is. Let’s just hope the experience doesn’t cause them to perform worse on track, especially all you RBR fans out there.

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Comments

  • arowana on Sep 15, 2017 at 9:47 am

    hahahahahhaa Max reaction in the end really win.. but such good durians being wasted really sayang bit lar

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  • this is brutal as waste a tasty durian.

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  • Leonardo on Sep 15, 2017 at 10:04 am

    Really hilarious guys!

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  • Someone should ask Ricciardo: Which tasted better, drinking from his shoe or eating durian?

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  • WHO CARES! on Sep 15, 2017 at 10:40 am

    They vomiited after tht yall

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  • inb4 SG trademark durian as national fruit and will be known as SG Durian.

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  • 12yrsold on Sep 15, 2017 at 11:21 am

    They may be the best drivers in F1 for this generation BUT they know Nuts about the tasty KING of fruits. Hope the durians will give them extra kick to challenge the leading pairs of Mercedez/Ferrari to make the racing more interesting.

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  • old horse on Sep 15, 2017 at 11:37 am

    durian with redbull? die faster..

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  • First Chicken Rice, then BKT, now Durian. The world will think Durian is from Singapore soon while Malaysia only famous for sarang ISIS…

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  • durianking on Sep 15, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    felt kinda like an insult to us Malaysians, seeing them humiliating durians by throwing durians around. :(

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  • kimi's fan on Sep 15, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Malaysia need to do something.

    SG and Malaysia have same foods in different countries. But SG has done something to make them icon, signature foods. eg. bak kut teh, fried curry crab, hainan chicken rice..

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    • I'm hungry typing this on Sep 15, 2017 at 5:24 pm

      Eh, we have char kuey teow, nasi kandar, nasi ganja, loh bak, klang bkt, kajang satay, sarawak kolo mere and many more!

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      • stasta on Sep 18, 2017 at 3:53 pm

        you missed the point. malaysia may also have those foods, but the outside world recognized those foods as belonging to singapore .

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    • Add A Comment on Sep 18, 2017 at 8:36 am

      And BKT is definitely not a SG thing…it is purely MY thing….

      – I Have Just Added A Comment –

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      • BKT is a regional thing. It’s totally different at both ends anyway. see open a bit la.

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  • rotormasters on Sep 18, 2017 at 8:32 am

    kah kah kah….sengal tul matsolih ni..

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