re: 2023 Formula 1 season Thread

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Are you serious? He's 100% going to do the endurance race circuit. He does all the virtual ones. I bet before he's 30 or maybe even after 26 if RB don't make a competitive car, he takes a year off to run the endurance circuit.

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Fair enough, I knew he did the virtual endurance races but I had not heard him talking about doing it for real. I did some googling, and I like what I'm seeing:

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“I want to try different kinds of discipline,” he says. “So probably a bit more endurance.”

“No ovals,” he stresses. “Just 24-hour races. Because I like to drive different kind of cars as well. Like I already do it now, like whatever GT3 cars and stuff.”

“I really enjoy testing myself in different kinds of machinery because I think you can learn from it and become an even better driver,” he explains. “So that’s what I want to do in the future.”

“Maybe even during my F1 career. But that’s [if] the schedule would allow that as well. At the moment that’s a bit hard to combine when we also go to more and more races.”

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That last quote is very encouraging, but he's right, the ridiculous F1 schedule makes it tough now. I'll be very intrigued to see him in other series. And I'd like to see him do it when he's still pretty young. Alonso has shown you can leave F1 and come back. And a young Max would certainly have more options than Alonso in a return to F1.

Unforunately he only seems to be interested in WEC, and maybe Daytona. There are numerous other interesting series he can try for fun. An IndyCar road race, Aussie Supercars, Super GT, IMSA. So far I don't anticipate him pulling a Kimi or Alonso and trying WRC or Dakar.