Tech3<\/a> owner Guenther Steiner has offered Norris a chance to ride a KTM MotoGP bike next year.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe is welcome to ride our bike next year,\u201d Steiner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has the same colour [as the McLaren], papaya\u2026 Ok, it\u2019s orange, but they are very similar.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can come and ride it; we will find a way to arrange it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be something nice for him, although I don\u2019t know if Zak Brown would be happy to see him ride a MotoGP bike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steiner took over ownership of Tech3 earlier this year, when he led a consortium in a \u20ac20 million purchase of the KTM satellite squad from Herve Poncharal.<\/p>\n
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While far from being a concrete plan, talk of an F1\/MotoGP crossover between Tech3 and Norris will be welcomed by the owner of both series, Liberty Media.<\/p>\n
However, Norris\u2019 association with Monster Energy could pose a stumbling block in Tech3\u2019s ambitions, given its – and KTM\u2019s – association with Red Bull.<\/p>\n
A number of MotoGP riders have dabbled with F1 machinery over the years, with the likes of Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez doing so.<\/p>\n
Rossi\u2019s flirtations with Ferrari machinery in the mid-2000s was part of serious considerations by the MotoGP legend in making a switch to F1.<\/p>\n
F1 drivers sampling MotoGP machinery is a rarer occurrence.<\/p>\n
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The most recent example was the ride swap between Rossi and Lewis Hamilton in 2019 at Valencia.<\/p>\n
That day, seven-time F1 champion Hamilton rode a Yamaha M1 for the first time, while Rossi got behind the wheel of one of his Mercedes cars.<\/p>\n
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