Inside the cockpit of Matt Hall's Red Bull stunt plane as it soars over the Illawarra's Sea Cliff Bridge

Well, the footage from inside the aircraft has been released and it was part of an epic road trip ahead of the F1 season.

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It turned out to be none other than renowned Red Bull stunt pilot Matt Hall in the cockpit, racing Aussie legend Daniel Ricciardo who was speeding along the bridge in his F1 car the RB7.

"There's nothing that compares to the Aussie conditions; we had a lot of fun ripping through the outback and tearing across the Sea Cliff Bridge," Ricciardo said.

Hall uploaded the video - which included some intense facial expressions - to his social media channels at the weekend.

The bridge on Lawrence Hargrave Drive has sweeping views of the Illawarra escarpment and ocean, and was closed for several hours on January 29 for the Red Bull promotion to be filmed.

Red Bull then released a longer clip of Ricciardo taking his RB7 to other iconic locations around the country, such as Broken Hill and at a Bathurst Supercars race.

Local racing experts, Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen, off-road racers Toby Price and Daniel Sanders, and aerobatic pilot, Matt Hall, helped Ricciardo test his car under Australia's toughest conditions ahead of the Melbourne Grand Prix. It will be Ricciardo's first Australian Grand Prix since rejoining the team last year.

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At the time, witnesses standing on Stanwell Park Beach posted videos to social media of the plane seemingly flying at speed towards the bridge, before shooting upwards.

The famous bridge of the Illawarra is often used for television commercials, still photography shoots, movies and television series.

In 2022, the bridge was ranked the region's top tourist experience in the Lonely Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List, ranked 26 overall for the nation's best attractions.

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