Within the round-up: Pink Bull motorsport marketing consultant Helmut Marko believes Aston Martin could possibly be changing into an more and more engaging prospect for Max Verstappen.
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Aston Martin has ‘every thing’ to woo Verstappen
Regardless of Verstappen being below contract at Pink Bull till a minimum of 2028, Marko believes rivals Aston Martin may develop into a tempting prospect for the a number of world champion now they’ve signed Adrian Newey.
“Max races the place he can win,” Marko instructed Kleine Zeitung.
“Aston Martin has essentially the most trendy manufacturing unit, their wind tunnel will go into operation subsequent 12 months, and Honda engines might be added as effectively. All the things is actually in place. And for those who have a look at historical past, it’s clear: in every single place Newey has gone, there’s been an upward pattern. I don’t see why it must be any totally different at Aston Martin.
“He is aware of he can win titles with us as effectively, if we will nonetheless get this championship over the road. That’s an absolute should.”
Sainz warned for Perez incident
Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz Jnr has obtained a proper warning from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix stewards after they deemed him to have impeded Sergio Perez on the quick kink of flip 13 in second follow.
After investigating the incident, the stewards decided Sainz had been “distracted by quite a lot of alarms on the automobile” and had “misjudged the closing velocity” of the Pink Bull.
As Perez acknowledged within the listening to that he felt the incident “didn’t find yourself being significantly harmful”, the stewards selected to present Sainz a warning.
BMW quickest in WEC Fuji follow
BMW’s quantity 15 staff of Dries Vanthoor, Raffaele Marciello and Marco Wittmann set the tempo on the finish of Friday’s follow periods for this weekend’s Six Hours of Fuji. Vanthoor’s finest time of 1’29.577 was solely six-thousandths of a second faster than the quantity 5 Penske Porsche, whereas the quantity two Cadillac had been third-fastest, simply 0.015s behind.
AF Corse’s quantity 83 Ferrari had been fourth after profitable the final occasion at Circuit of the Americas, whereas the quickest Toyota was the quantity seven automobile in ninth place. Qualifying for the penultimate spherical of the WEC season takes place early this morning.
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