Between Formula 1 and MotoGP pilots, there are bridges due to a common investor who opens the opportunity for both to discover both worlds. We have seen motorcycle champions move into Formula 1 seats, but it is rarer to see the opposite. It must be said that, in this case, the danger is more significant. A difference that comes from mourning the hopes of a certain Max Verstappen.
The youngest of hot-blooded Formula 1 obviously does not inspire enough confidence to be entrusted with a MotoGP. The young Batavian would nevertheless have wanted to do as Fernando Alonso to whom Honda allowed to experience the joys of the two-wheeled missile. But its sponsor Red Bull vetoed it.
Public chat f1i.auto-moto.com we learn in fact that Verstappen had expressed the wish to test a MotoGP after the Spaniard Marc Marquez tried his hand at driving a Formula 1 car on the Red Bull Ring earlier this year.
« I asked the team if I could try a MotoGP,” Verstappen reveals to De Telegraaf. “Red Bull is also involved in MotoGP as a sponsor of the Honda and KTM teams, so this could have been set up »
« I would love to try a MotoGP on a race track, like the Red Bull Ring, but they said no, and their no was adamant! They think it's too dangerous »
It will be recalled that through the Monster energy drink, Jorge Lorenzo had been able to slip into the Formula 1 Mercedes for a few laps which had been estimated at the time as quite fast.
