Max Verstappen Special

Well, that was Max Verstappen speaking to Andrew Benson.

Fascinating.

I mean, when he's in that sort of mood, it's just gold.

Well, the thing about it was, it's like there were so many good lines, and, um, in the end, on the website, we did it as a Q&A, which is very rare on BBC Sport.

We would normally try and construct a more considered article than that.

But it just felt like the, um, there was just, there was so much that he, that he came out with on so many topics, it felt like the questions themselves were just, uh, enough to set it into context.

Um, and of course, so many interesting lines in there, Jenny.

You know, I mean, you know, obviously he explored in depth why he'd stayed at Red Bull because, of course, on the face of it, there was nothing obvious about, um, why he should stay from three months before when he was considering his future, both in terms of the performance of the car, but also in terms of the new rules.

Um, there were some really interesting lines being the captain of the ship, and you can't just walk away if you're the captain of the ship when things are going, uh, you know, when the r- weather's rough.

He didn't use that phrase, but you know, just to give it the, the full, um, analogy.

Um, and then of course, his comments about, um, his, how he much enjoyed the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

I mean, what about you? What did you take away from it when you read it?

I think I was most excited by the fact that he, he still obviously he is passionate about driving.

F1, okay, at the moment is not his bag, but his future, what does that look like? And I, I think we got some answers to that.

But also I'm excited to see him, you know, cross over to other disciplines of motorsport, and the fact that the tasting, like, titbit that we could see him and Alonso partner in Le M- I mean, just imagine.

Yeah, I've been waiting to ask him that question for a while actually-

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... 'cause they've both been kind of alluding to it through the season, and it's, uh, it was fun to hear that they've actually been discussing it themselves.

Do you think it'll happen, really?

It sounds like it's a bit down the line, but I can absolutely see it from both their points of view.

You know, if you're Alonso, why wouldn't you wanna team up with Max Verstappen? And from Max's point of view, obviously, he said in the interview that, you know, of Alonso's experience, what he means is he's won Le Mans twice already-

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so he knows what he's doing around that track.

And of course, one of the, Alonso's best drives in his, in his career was the way he turned the 2018 Le Mans on its head and basically took the race by the scruff of its neck and won for the number eight Toyota that year.