Having a sponsor who is passionate about motor sports is a joy when you are a multiple World Champion with unparalleled talent. This creates connections, encourages bridges and, why not, gives rise to vocations. There were, in another era, pilots who were able to triumph in both worlds. Since then, it has become more complicated, even impossible. But that doesn’t stop you from tasting it…
Valentino Rossi almost, at one point in his career, switched to Ferrari to do Formula 1. And in a few years, we will undoubtedly find him in Rallying and/or Endurance. Lately, Jorge Lorenzo was able to slip into a Mercedes Formula 1 thanks to a Monster investor who could well allow him a next adventure at Suzuki…
Now it's the turn of Marc Márquez to have the opportunity to find yourself behind the wheel of the best in automobiles. It's confirmed, the Honda official will sit in a single-seater on the Spielberg circuit, in Austria. An initiative that comes from Red Bull, sponsor of the Spanish champion, which owns both the circuit and the eponymous F1 team. Sorry!
These tests will take place on June 5 and 6. Besides Márquez, his teammate at Honda Dani Pedrosa and the nine-time world motocross champion Tony Cairoli will also be installed in the cockpit of a Red Bull with a V8 engine, dating from before 2014 and the arrival of hybrid engines in F1. And we will pull out all the stops to do things seriously: the three drivers will go to the Red Bull team headquarters in Milton Keynes, England, in the coming days. They will take part in a day on a simulator to get used to the single-seater…
