Max Verstappen has hailed Lando Norris for the setup of his own junior team, which is due to go racing in 2027.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the reigning world champion announced the formation of his own junior squad, which has acquired assets from AIX Racing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It is due to compete in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, Formula Regional European Championship and Italian F4 Championship next year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The new team was set up by Norris to \u201cgive back\u201d, according to the 26-year-old, and offer opportunities to up-and-coming racers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
With the costs for competing in motorsport ever-rising, Verstappen acknowledged it is a positive development for young racers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s tough at the moment, costs are rising,\u201d Verstappen told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the more you can help them, the better it is.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSome real talents, they don’t have a lot of money, so to be able to create these kind of initiatives is great.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tVerstappen has no plans to replicate Norris<\/p>\n
Verstappen also has his own racing team, however, rather than focusing on the single-seater pyramid, the Dutchman’s activities are in endurance competition.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The four-time champion admitted he prefers to keep the two seperate.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“No, not really, not from my side,\u201d\u00a0he said, when asked if he had plans for a single-seater team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy the endurance side of things and combining endurance and Formula cars is very hectic.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy more to be on the other side, working with established drivers, but also young guys that are finding that it is a crazy world.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can prepare them through the sim company we have as well. We are anyway training a lot of Formula 2, 3 and 4 drivers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m very happy with what I’m doing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has hailed Lando Norris for the setup of his own junior team, which is due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-607057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}