Former Hamilton confidante Cullen backs Red Bull star

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Former Hamilton confidante Cullen backs Red Bull star

Cullen promoted the former world champion on social media site Instagram

By Dan Ripley.

Wednesday 24 January 2024 02:57

It's crossover season in F1, with Red Bull and Mercedes seeming to practically live out of each other's pockets in the last few weeks.

Max Verstappen climbed into a Mercedes (or at least, a virtual Mercedes) to win some races for Team Redline, while George Russell bumped into Red Bull legend Sebastian Vettel on the ski slopes in Austria.

The Mercedes and Red Bull links don't stop there though, with one of the more surprising ones having emerged recently on Instagram.

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Former skiing world champion Lindsey Vonn took to the social media site recently to reminisce over an event last year where long time sponsors Red Bull gave her the chance to ski down the legendary Streif track in the dark.

Angela Cullen (left) was a long time trainer for Lewis Hamilton (right)

Lindsey Vonn is pictured inside a Red Bull F1 car

Vonn achievement backed by Cullen

"It is something to behold. Never had I been so excited and anxious to ski a downhill in my life… but I guess that’s also to be expected considering I hadn’t skied downhill since the day I retired 4 years earlier! Thank you @redbull for making my dreams come true and congratulations to all the incredible athletes who raced down it this weekend! You are all victorious in my mind!"

Despite the Red Bull links though, Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton's former physio and trainer Angela Cullen has been inspired by the now retired athlete, as according to EssentiallySports, she she shared Vonn's post with the caption of 'Self belief" accompanied with a flame emoji.

Cullen was recently back in the UK after posting an image of Tower Bridge, while she teased having a Mercedes soft spot recently with another social media post referring to paradise.

Fans remain waiting to see if she will ever return to Formula 1 after parting company with Hamilton a year ago.

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Dan Ripley - Global Editor

I've been a massive F1 fan since the mid 1990s and continue to study the history of the sport long before that. As an experienced motor sport reporter covering F1, MotoGP and the LeMans 24 Hour race, being part of GPFans has allowed me to work with a diverse team with all sorts of different backgrounds in watching the sport and given me a greater appreciation of F1.

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