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 a part of the highest class of the World Endurance Championship from 2027 onwards, which additionally means it’s going to compete within the Le Mans 24 Hours. That race has been on Verstappen’s want listing for fairly a while and, via the Pink Bull-Ford partnership in Components 1, alternatives might come up for the Dutchman to step into Ford’s hypercar – offered 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 will surely 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 certain. For my part, Max is the most effective 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 Workforce Verstappen Racing, Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO: Max Verstappen, Daniel Juncadella, Jules Gounon
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Requested what precisely that benefit could be, Sargeant replied: “Effectively, he’s the quickest driver on the planet. He’s going to almost definitely kick everybody’s ass. I’d somewhat that be in my automobile than the opposite.”
In line with the 25-year-old, the advantages go far past merely having a quick team-mate who might help transfer the crew ahead. “It goes a lot past simply driving model, seeing what he’s doing with the instruments, lap in, lap out, how he’s making changes…
“Clearly, he has a lot expertise from Components 1. For him, it could simply be like plug and play. There’s a lot you may 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 most effective automobile, he nonetheless finds a option to make it work. That may’t be stated for everybody.”
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