In an unique interview with Motorsport.com, Ford Efficiency director Mark Rushbrook revealed that the American marque is having “common discussions” with Max Verstappen about doing extra in sportscars – together with hypercar.
Ford will be part of the highest class of the World Endurance Championship from 2027 onwards, which additionally means it is going to compete within the Le Mans 24 Hours. That race has been on Verstappen’s want record for fairly a while and, by the Crimson Bull-Ford partnership in Formulation 1, alternatives might come up for the Dutchman to step into Ford’s hypercar – supplied the calendar permits it.
Ex-F1 driver Logan Sargeant at the moment races for Ford within the WEC, albeit this 12 months within the LMGT3 class. From subsequent 12 months onwards, nevertheless, he’ll take the wheel of the hypercar, which is about to start testing at varied circuits later this 12 months.
Sargeant would definitely welcome Verstappen as a future team-mate. “Effectively, if he’s driving, I hope he’s in my automobile!” Sargeant laughed in an unique interview with Motorsport.com.
“That’s for positive. For my part, Max is the perfect to ever do it. So if I might share a automobile with him, that will be an enormous privilege and an enormous benefit.”
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#3 Mercedes-AMG Crew Verstappen Racing, Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO: Max Verstappen, Daniel Juncadella, Jules Gounon
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Requested what precisely that benefit can be, Sargeant replied: “Effectively, he’s the quickest driver on the planet. He’s going to almost certainly kick everybody’s ass. I’d slightly that be in my automobile than the opposite.”
In keeping with the 25-year-old, the advantages go far past merely having a quick team-mate who will help transfer the group ahead. “It goes a lot past simply driving type, seeing what he’s doing with the instruments, lap in, lap out, how he’s making changes…
“Clearly, he has a lot expertise from Formulation 1. For him, it will simply be like plug and play. There’s a lot you’ll be able to be taught from somebody like that.
“You don’t win 4 world championships with out the pace he has. You see it, even when he’s not in the perfect automobile, he nonetheless finds a method to make it work. That may’t be mentioned for everybody.”
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