Red Bull Formula 1 team turns Washingtons iconic Pennsylvania Ave into a race track NBC Los Angeles [Video]

Thousands of fans lined up along Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday for the thrill of watching a Formula 1 race-winner blast down the iconic street in a championship-winning car.

The event was hosted on a breezy spring afternoon by reigning F1 champions Oracle Red Bull Racing as part of a series of events in American cities designed to bring the world’s fastest race cars closer to the sport’s fastest growing fanbase.

The main event featured F1 race-winner and former Red Bull driver David Coulthard. The retired driver, who goes by “DC,” raced the RB7 car — in which Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 title — down the street between the Capitol building and White House, the same area that gets blocked off for presidential inaugurations.

Crowds packed the spectator zones for a good view, cheering and smelling burnt rubber as Coulthard hit the throttle in a car that goes over 200 miles an hour, some of them covering their ears as the engine …