During the Japanese Grand Prix conference, Max Verstappen commented the F1 Academy a little harshly. According to the three-time world champion, having an F4 car would make even a circuit like Suzuka boring.
Max Verstappen against the slowness of women's single-seaters
The Thursday of the Japanese Grand Prix hosted the cyclical conference that opens the race weekend. Regarding the question asked to Yuki tsunoda, who replied that racing at Suzuka had become boring for him, the 3-time world champion also jumped in.
The Dutchman in fact agreed with Yuki, who to clarify his answer, referred to the high number of laps - and consequently km - made in his career on the circuit in question. Max Verstappen, however, when talking about the circuit, made his connection to the women's category.
So what was Max Verstappen referring to?
According to the 3-time world champion, certain circuits can be boring if you don't have a competitive single-seater that allows you to race in the front rows.
In reference to this, Verstappen declared that the cars of the F1 Academy are too slow. The Academy girls, in fact, compete with one single-brand car which has an F4 engine. Absolutely not compliant with bringing out the talent of promising young women.
The cars they drive are too slow, if we really want to help girls get to F1 we need a higher level of resources available. I don't criticize F1's support for girls through the Formula Academy, but the approach. Do we really help them in this way? I don't know, because there is no next step.
Max Verstappen during the drivers conference in Suzuka
For Max, therefore, the problem does not arise at all about the female category, but only about the management and regulation methods. Adding, then, that if he were to meet a very fast girl in the SimRacing championship, the RedLine team would be interested.
According to what you read above FormulaPassion, Verstappen would have added: «At the moment we only have guys in our team, but if a fast girl arrived we would certainly like her. It's like in the real world, it's not a question of gender, but a question of performance."
