Verstappen’s potential value
If the moment ever comes when Verstappen steps into Ford’s hypercar, which is set to hit the track later this year for its test programme, Rushbrook expects him to be of great value to the project.
“One of the great things about Max, is drivers like him don’t come along that often, in terms of what he accomplishes on track, right?”, said Rushbrook. “But it’s how he accomplishes it.”
“Especially this year when we were in Barcelona [for the F1 shakedown]. Hearing his feedback on the radio while he’s out on track, testing his brand new car, and then he would come back in after doing, depending on the stint, 30, 40, 50 laps.
“The amount of detail that he’s able to give feedback to the engineers that is so much more valuable than all the data that the engineers have.
“It’s complimentary, it’s got to go together. Just the mental capacity and the bandwidth that he has for developing a car, for racing a car, for tuning a car. To have a driver like that in your programme, at some point, even if it’s only for one race, is pretty meaningful.”
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